Re: SPEC: Signa seed list--iris/irid cross

From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>

Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
> 
> From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> 
> Gerry Snyder wrote:
> > << Is a cross between an iris and an irid eligible for awards at an iris
> >  show? Has the situation ever come up? >>
> and Mark Cook added:
> >      This could get very interesting...  My opinion would be that it
> should
> > be eligible.
> 
> Gerry and Mark,
> 
> The AIS Judges Handbook (p. 187) defines species crosses as follows:
> 
> "SPEC-X is the class for interspecies crosses. These hybrids have a mix of
> species traits creating a new plant. Any cross involving an iris species as
> one of the parents and another plant not of that species is a species
> cross."
> 
> If that statement means what it says, then the kinds of crosses you have
> been referring to are clearly eligible to be included in the SPEC-X class
> for the purposes of AIS awards and exhibition at AIS-sanctioned shows.

Blush!!  For shame!!! Mea culpa!!!!

If I'd just take the time to read the handbook.

Since it's too late to try to claim that I knew it all along and just
asked the question to help bring others up to my level of erudition,
I'll have to say a big "Thank you" to Jeff for the clarification.

Is this group great, or what??

Gerry
-- 
g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair
Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles

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