AIS: Introduction before Registration (was a date question)
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- Subject: AIS: Introduction before Registration (was a date question)
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:02:30 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
> From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
>
> Now my question for everyone: Look at these dates. I checked the front of
> the '97 R&I book and didn't see a correx for either of these. How does a
> plant wind up with an intro date earlier than its registration date?
Anyone?
Celia,
Introduction of an iris before it is registered, though not common, is
certainly not unknown. Sometimes the urge to introduce outruns the
paperwork. At other times a cultivar is introduced without any apparent
concern for registration at all. The still widely grown sport of HONORABILE
known as "Joseph's Coat" was introduced by A. B. Katkamier, a nurseryman in
upstate New York, in 1930, but never registered by him. It was nearly half
a century later before someone (in this case Eric Tankesley-Clarke of
Adamgrove Gardens in Missouri) took the trouble to register it with the
AIS. As another iris (a collected form of a Louisiana species) had been
registered as JOSEPH'S COAT in the interim (1946), the official registered
name of the Katkamier introduction is JOSEPH'S COAT KATKAMIER - introduced
in 1930 and registered in 1989! This is rather a good illustration of the
confusion that can result when registration and introduction are not
closely linked on the time scale.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
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