RE: Naming Iris
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: RE: Naming Iris
- From: T* T* L* <t*@rt66.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:09:53 -0700 (MST)
Barb writes
:I keep wondering when AIS and the other iris associations will allow 4-word
:names. Sooner or later all the 1-, 2-, or 3-word names which have any
:kind of
:meaning will have been used up (okay, I have a bunch stashed in my files, but
:many of them have meaning only for me).
It's not the AIS's decision. Plant names are governed by the International
Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (I think I got all the words in
the right order!). Last year they revised the code, and they no longer
count words. The name must be 30 characters or less (excluding spaces), and
no more than 10 syllables...if I'm remembering all this right. So you can
now have a 4-word (or even 5-word) name, if the words are short! :)
Happy irising, Tom.
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Tom Tadfor Little telp@Rt66.com
Iris-L list owner * USDA zone 5/6 * AIS region 23
Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
Telperion Productions http://www.rt66.com/~telp/
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