Re: OT: plants from Holland
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: plants from Holland
- From: J* C*
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:56:04 PDT
> > This is so true. One of their favorite tricks is to take
> > an older registered cultivar and assign a new name to it.
Sometimes it happens purely through ignorance. There is a person locally who
sells irises in pots in spring (usually in bloom). She showed me AMETHYST
FLAME that she had bought from a local nursery, and commented that, when she
looked it up in the Tempo Two catalogue, she found a picture of it, but they
had given it a different name. I tried to point out to her that this would
be a different iris, that just looked similar, but I was wasting my breath.
She went on to say how the same iris appears under several different names
in different Tempo Two catalogues.
Tempo Two is Barry Blyth's nursery. The other, local nursery (source of AF),
is known for giving irises the wrong names. In fact, there are no labels,
and the proprietor admits that he does not know one from the other, until
they bloom in spring!
Always be on guard!
Cheers, Jan Clark, waiting eagerly for spring in Australia.
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Avoid the lines and visit avis.com for quick and easy online
reservations. Enjoy a compact car nationwide for only $29 a day!
Click here for more details.
http://click.egroups.com/1/3011/0/_/486170/_/955842966/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
