Re: Dark Horse
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Dark Horse
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:57 -0700 (MST)
Clarence M. wrote re the Wister Medal:
>Dennis, this question is easy to answer. Look at the number of votes it took
>THORNBIRD to win. THORNBIRD won with 50 votes! lst runner up got only 4
>fewer votes, and third runner up got only 5 fewer votes. So less than 10% of
>the votes can determine the Wister.
Not to be critical *but* how can we (AIS members) take this seriously
with so few 'judges' voting for a particular cultivar? I am perturbed
that these so-called iris experts can't wait until the Japanese
irises have bloomed and been evaluated to make the Dykes
selection.
Steamed in Zone 3a where we grow and love JIs,
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher "Dried flowers and herbs hang
e_galla@moose.ncia.net from beams - a sweet-scented
Lancaster, New Hampshire, USA canopy that prolongs the
USDA Zone 3 pleasures of a garden."
