Re: Naming of plants
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- Subject: Re: Naming of plants
- From: "* b* c* <b*@atlantic.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:52:26 -0700 (MST)
>
> Please do not label all nurseryfolk as disreputable ogres - we are trying
to
> make a living and we do our best (especially with only 24 hours per
day!).
> Anyone on this list who suggests that they are 100% certain of the name
of all
> the irises in their collection is either a liar or a fool.
>
> Graham Spencer
Graham,
No one that I know of is doing this. I mentioned that the
overwhelming majority of the nurseries are honest. From what I have heard,
I would put you in the HONEST Category. You would NOT be on the "Boycott
List."
The only ones I get upset at are the ones who KNOWINGLY sell misnamed
plants for year after year, and ignore everyone who tells them the plants
are misnamed. At this time, I can think of only four candidates for this
list. None of the four is operated by anyone on the Iris-L.
I don't have near as many Irises here as I did in Kentucky. I did not
bring any of the ones whose identity I was not certain of. If I do find
one misnamed, I immediately stop trading it off under that name, and I
contact everyone I gave it to and tell them it is misnamed, giving them the
proper name when possible. You might remember my STATEN ISLAND, oops it is
really LORELEY posts of last year.
Mark A. Cook
billc@atlantic.net
Dunnellon, FL.
