REF: color codes (cheating on homework)
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- Subject: REF: color codes (cheating on homework)
- From: L* M* <l*@icx.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:58:41 -0700 (MST)
Teacher said:
> This started out as a HOMEWORK assignment for Hybridizing 201 -- ... The quickest way to get
> comfortable with the old color codes [pre-1950] is to learn to visualize a specific
> cultivar associated with each code. <snip> ...
> Set up a matrix for each decade, based on the chart in the front of the
> Checklist. [Or combine the 30s with the 40s and the 50s with the 60s,
> because the main change was in 1949.] <snip> ....
> Now consider cultivars you are already familiar with. Ones you grow or can
> find pictured in catalogs. Look up their color codes in the checklists and
> add them to your chart as your personal "standards".
If anybody does this photoreferenceable (??) to recent Schreiner's or
Cooley's catalogs, please post your homework!
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
lost somewhere in the color maze
Mariposa Skies and Buckwheat feel pregnant - this is January!! Last
frost scheduled for first week of May...????
