Re: Re: TB: Checklist information (was TB: Purple-based foliage)
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: TB: Checklist information (was TB: Purple-based foliage)
- From: J* B*
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:22:53 -0400
Most of the checklist entries are written by the hybridizer.
Some observe more detail than others, just as some breed
and introduce more/better irises than others. If you want to
see detail in descriptions and lineage, read some of Keith
Keppel's entries in the 1990's checklists <G>.
The other reason that the checklists have limited information
is probably due to the times of the introductions. I doubt
that few if any of the hybridizers from the 20's thru the 50's really
had an inkling of what was to come in development of color
patterns, beards, horns, etc. A short and simple description would
seem to suffice when only 100 or so irises were introduced in a
year, compared to nearly a thousand now. I believe that a section
was just added a few years ago to really describe beards.
It does make identification harder, but that is part of the fun....I think
:)
John Bruce
> I think any such observable pigments would be helpful additions to the CL
> descriptions. I don't understand why so many of the CL listings are so
> brief. It seems to me that the AIS would want to maintain as in-depth
> plant descriptions as possible in their files for purposes of positive
> plant ID, both now and in the future.
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