Re: Cult:use of titles
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Cult:use of titles
- From: D* P*
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:38:42 -0800
- References: <3A6E1E33.6105@pacbell.net>
Gordon & Loraine Nicholson wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, in our quest to inform our newer iris lovers via our
> club newsletter I would like to pose two questions concerning the use of
> names that are used to describe differents types of iris. Please use
> simple language that will explain to "newbies" and refresh the memory of
> "oldies". Most members of our club have been iris lovers for many years
> but have not used allot of correct iris terms. I thought we could add a
> line of two each month to our newsletter with some sort of reward to
> those that use the word twice in the next meeting.
> #1-What is a median?
>
> #2-What is the difference between a PCI and a PCN?
>
> Lorraine Nicholson, San Joaquing Iris Society in Modesto California,
> region 14
How about a multiple choice question challenge? <grin>
#1-What is a median?
(a) Iris grown in the strip of ground between the two roadways of an
Interstate or other divided highway.
(a) An Oncocyclus Iris from Persia, Land of the Medes.
(b) Iris from the four intermediate sized bearded iris sections of the
American Iris Society.
(c) Bearded iris with a color pattern extending down the middle of the
falls.
(d) A bearded iris found to lack superior height by the show judges.
(e) All of the above.
(f) None of the above.
#2-What is the difference between a PCI and a PCN?
(a) Pacific Coast Immigrant iris and Pacific Coast Native iris.
(b) Pacific Coast Iris and Puget Coast Native iris
(c) Pacific Coast Iris and the ISO Primary Cyan color identifier for a
shade of cyan found in most species of iris.
(d) None. They are the same iris native to the Pacific Coast of North
America.
(e) All of the above.
(f) None of the above.
Dallas Patterson
nye@fidalgo.net
on the Puget Sound Coast
of Warshington
