AIS: "Illegitimate Irises"
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- Subject: AIS: "Illegitimate Irises"
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- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:02:14 -0600
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From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
Yesterday's mail brought the Registrations and Introductions in 1999
booklet, a January 2000 publication.
On the last page our esteemed registrar-recorder makes some
interesting comments I'll quote:
". . . Show committees and officials should remember that cultivars
not registered with the American Iris Society (other than bulbous
irises) cannot be entered in American Iris Society sanctioned show
competition -- except as seedlings or species where appropriate.
While the registrar appreciates any help from members in locating and
documenting non-registered varieties in general distribution, he
would also appreciate any help in persuading the non-conformists to
adhere to the registration processes. (At times I have been sorely
tempted to publish a list of 'illegitimate' irises, hoping to shame
their hybridizers into action!)"
Without embarrassing the hybridizer/registrant/selector, do you know
any of these "illegitimate irises?" I think show chairmen would like
to have a list.
Two entries in this R & I caught my attention. RED MANTLE has been
around a long time and has been used in hybridizing. The entry shows
RM was introduced in 1961, but was registered in 1999. Its problem
is solved with the 2000 R & I.
DRADY is a 1999 registration with a notation of its being in
circulation prior to 1960. It doesn't appear to be introduced.
Where does DRADY go in a show? If it is placed in the seedling
class, can it be best seedling?
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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