Re: AIS: naming of plants

It is the Dutch who control the registration of bulbous irises.  Most
perennial plants are under the RHS direction, I believe .  International Code
of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, a code established more
recently...Current Codes fo Nomenclature may be obtained from the
International Burea for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature, 106 Lange
Nieuwstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands.  US adapted in 1959.  Courtesy of Wyman's
Gardening Encyclopedia which has been a very valuable source of gardening
information to me since the early 1970's and then it was Taylor's Encyclopedia
of Gardening.  I moved both of them to the retirement because they are such
concise books of knowledge.  Most subjects are written by and expert in his
field.  I wouldn't be without Wymans. 
Your next posting is right on and I want to congratulate for trying to sell
true named plants.  Some nurserymen do not try, even when it is pointed out
that they have misnamed plants.  I agree with you 100% that it is ridiculous
to think that iris can be named by the registrations-it can help if your'e
growing a white and it is supposed to be blue-that's an obvious.  I
congratulate you for your honestly and indeed it is not easy.  I've been
interested in Papaver as a 3rd/4th plant interest and that is a disaster and
there is no registration info available to us like AIS gives us.  I've
gardened consentratedly (new word?) for 42 yrs and not just grown what someone
was discarded but tried to see and grow new irises.  Its not easy to identify
an iris without a name.  Anna Mae Miller, Kala mazoo MI zone 5
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