Re: OT: plants from Holland
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>
> Ask any American commercial nurseryman their opinion of perennial stocks
> from Holland. They might say that the opposite is the case--much
> mislabelled material comes out of the Land of Wooden Shoes. One problem is
> that plants are grown from the seed of named varieties, then sold labelled
> as that variety.
>
> Bill Shear
This is so true. One of their favorite tricks is to take
an older registered cultivar and assign a new name to it.
It then in effect becomes a "new" flower without any
breeding effort or expense.
When we had a nursery, I quickly learned to trust nothing
which came from Holland.
John Montgomery
Vernon BC one 5 -- my keyboard has stopped printing the
last letter of the alphabet.
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