Re: AIS:Iris of the Millennium
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- Subject: Re: AIS:Iris of the Millennium
- From: J* I* J*
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 22:11:06 -0800
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From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
HIPSource@aol.com wrote:
>
> From: HIPSource@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 1/6/99 10:27:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> cwalters@digitalpla.net writes:
>
> << I agree with you that Ii. pallida and pseudacorus and other species belong
> to the ages, and not specifically to the Second Millenium AD, and are
> therefore not really eligible for the honor in question.>>
>
> I don't find this distinction to be very compelling and I believe that the
> antiquity of the irises as well as their contemporaneity is precisely what
> makes them candidates for the title, and further that these attributes are
> actual and not conferred on the irises in question by extrapolation from
> arbitrarily selected specifics. To hang the title of Iris of the Millennium on
> any one modern cultivar strikes me as deficient in historical perspective. We
> can't even get a Dykes' winner that everyone agrees on.
The question that has been bouncing around in my brain cells is: Are we naming
the iris of the millenium we are in or the one to lead off the next millenium,
and is the next millenium the 2d or the 3d?
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