PBF Project
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- Subject: PBF Project
- From: S* M* <7*@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:52:25 -0700 (MST)
Mike Lowe wrote:
: I suspect that we might want to solicit iris-l input of cultivars that
: surcumbed to disease or weather after surviving a settling-in period.
Another good idea.
: we also need to have an
: input on the problemless iris.
I was expecting the ones that have survived many years to represent this group.
: Would a list of those cultivars that have
: survived a minimum of three years without incident do for this?
No. I don't think that's long enough to qualify as "problemless". More like,
"not suicidal". If TB turnover is so great that we really can't collect much
data on varieties grown over 10 years, I don't think we can expect to perform a
meaningful test.
Maybe we should add a category: "grown over 10 years but discarded". That
would depend, of course, on somebody else reporting the base color for that
variety....
For example, I don't even have to go back to my records to remember that I grew
COLOR CARNIVAL, EASTER BONNET, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and ZANTHA for almost 30 years.
But COLOR CARNIVAL is the only one I'm sure had purple-based foliage.
Sharon McAllister (73372.1745@compuserve.com)
