Re: OT: Lookalikes & seedlings

From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>


> >  
> HI all,
> 
> I also have a problem with that Rosalie. We have a club located close by
> that sells seedlings of a local hybridizer to the public as well. I just
> think it's unethical to do this because we shouldn't be adding to the
> unknown pool. Maybe someone needs to write an article for the AIS Bulletin
> to stress this to the clubs and it's members. This could possibly be done
> by a board member which would give more credit to the article.
> 
>                             Jim Loveland, Fenton, MO    Zone 5
> 
	Probably, a lot of the above is now in the 'self-correcting' stage.

	If you were on the old Iris-L or just remember well, several years a 
certain unnamed convention site committee decided to advertise and 
sell over the internet and otherwise just about everything that grew 
at that convention at drastically reduced prices.  Some of the 
current year's introductions were priced at $4. (The hybridizers were 
asking ten times that much).  This was an outrageous thing to do (but 
quite a bargain for the public) since permission to do so had not 
been granted by the hybridizers.

	How is this 'self-correcting?"

	Most hybridizers/contributors to conventions are asking for the 
return of all their stock.  Of course, more work and more postage are 
involved as a convention closes, needless to say.  Naturally, we 
don't know if all stock has been returned, but I can fairly well 
estimate.  I am sorry things turned out this way and have cut the 
revenue for future conventions and have made disposition of surplus 
plants so difficult.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8

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