Re: HYB: history - educating hybridizers?
- Subject: Re: HYB: history - educating hybridizers?
- From: "pinkirises" p*@whidbey.net
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 03:20:22 -0000
I would love to take such a course. If it can be done on-line and
gratis. I'm basically confined to this island. Which is okay by me,
the memory of the mainland being still vivid in my nervous system.
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
> While rummaging around the archives hunting for something else, I
ran
> across a thread about the need for hybridizers & how to encourage
them.
> And the idea of having accreditation for hybridizers. Considering
the
> wealth of information that's been exchanged thru this forum since
this
> was posted, I thought it was worth a bit of reminiscing & wonder
what
> Chris would say now, 6+ yrs later.:
> =============
> From Mallorn archives, Rt66 iris-l:
> <Mon, 25 Mar 1996
> What I would like to see is an educational program from the AIS
(very
> similar to what the judges already have) with the focus on
hybridizing.
> I think the long term result from a program like this will
> maintain/increase the number of hybridizers and would definitly help
> pass on the knowledge.
>
> Unfortunately, there have been quite a number of well known and
> knowledgable hybridizers die in the past year. Should it just be
left to
> chance to hope that others appear to replace them? Of course, nobody
> would be obligated to participate in such instruction or courses,
but
> what budding hybridizer could resist the potential of such
knowledge?
> Chris Hollinshead Mississauga, Ontario Canada>
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
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