OT - DOGS

I have been curious for some time regarding the practice of referring to
"junk" seedlings as DOGS. Please note this is not a complaint or an attempt
to whitewash the language but simple curiosity. Do hybridizers have an
historic anathema toward dogs? Did Mr. Dykes get bitten by a dog while
making a cross? Why are the ugly ones not HIPPOS ar WARTHOGS? I wonder what
dog breeders call their diaappointments. Are they Tulips?

As someone who seems to need to have a couple of dogs around to make the
world go as it should, it would never occur to me to call an ugly plant a
dog. On the other hand, our Siberian Huskies wouldn't care, I don't think,
because they really do not consider themselves to belong to the dog
species. Intheir minds, they are rather in a special niche, more or less
parallel and equal to humans but perhaps a little smarter and certainly (in
their minds) more handsome and charming.

Cheers

John Montgomery
Vernon  BC
monashee@junction.net	Whose wife just presented me with a monster box of
Crayola crayons. ( But no coloring book)
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