Re: HIST: Origin of Early Hybrids
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HIST: Origin of Early Hybrids
- From: J* M*
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:10:09 -0700
- References: <199908180341.UAA09962@okjunc2.junction.net>
From: John Montgomery <monashee@junction.net>
Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
> In the last sentence you seem to have said that hybridizing is itself, but
> it is also two other things as well. To pursue your own analogy,
> hybridizing is a car, but it is also an airplane and a motorboat. Perhaps
> we need an agreed definition of hybridizing. Is it the intentional,
> controlled sexual reproduction of plants or animals by human agency, which
> was my intent in using the term, or is it the whole process of plant
> breeding, selection, propagation, and marketing, as you have implied, or is
> it something else?
This is an interesting discussion. Just to throw a monkey wrench into the works
I will add the following. A friend of mine prefers to be called a 'plant
breeder' rather than a 'plant hybridizer'. His rationale is that insects, wind
and accidents of nature create valid hybrids but he *intentionally* breeds for
hybrids which he hopes and expects will exhibit certain traits which he is
looking for.
Splitting hairs?
Cheers
John Montgomery
Vernon BC Zone 5
monashee@junction.net
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