Re: TB:CULT: More pedigree help?

Christian,

I'm glad you are getting the information you wanted.  If you are familiar with
animal pedigrees, the convention is exactly opposite it is for iris (and, I
suspect, all plants).  The MALE parent is first in animal pedigrees.  It
confuses the heck out of some folks until they get used to the difference.

In case I missed someone's reply to your question about the trees (which you
see in the HIPS site) yes, the top is the female, bottom the male part of the
pedigree.

Incidentally, you might like to know that those pedigrees you are looking at
on the HIPS website are the product of work by Mike Lowe in Virginia.  He
built a program for the Mac that has a "look up" feature that builds the tree
automatically provided the data is in the database.  He has acquired a lot of
seedling parentages from Schreiner and other lines so there are no dead
ends--unless the information is unknown.  We all owe Mike an enormous debt of
gratitude, especially as it publishes quite a bit of information not available
elsewhere.  Keith Keppel has been of great help to him.

Just to be clear about seedling numbers--each hybridizer develops his or her
own system.  Schreiners, for example, have (or did have?)  letter for year,
space, serial number of the cross, hyphen, number or letter identifying which
seedling from the cross is designated.  An example---"L 100-A", a Schreiner
blue/dark line seedling you will see in a *lot* of pedigrees.

By fluke or accident, however improbably, two or more hybridizers *could* end
up with registrations of seedling numbers that were the same.  I've never
noted it to happen, but it could.

I only wish that program could be developed for use on the Windows-based PC.
Sigh.

Neil Mogensen  z 6b/7a near Asheville, NC

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