Re: AIS: Electronic Checklist vs Hardcopy
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] AIS: Electronic Checklist vs Hardcopy
- From: w*
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:08:41 -0500
- Priority: normal
On 17 Jul 01, at 8:39, Sandy Ives wrote:
>
> 2.) The book lists all the cultivars and you cannot simply isolate one.
> Invariably I look up a particular cultivar and marvel at the precision
> Keith Keppel or Joe Ghio display in their descriptions.
The big marvel to me is how they can keep all of those parentheses
straight . . .(((((Flop-ears x (Hour-Glass Waist x . . . . .)))) x (((Green Gangrene)
. . . . worse than a Chomsky tree diagram.
I was also amazed to know of all of the different color charts as listed
by Keith in the hard copy. The new hard copy has introduced me to
several more, which I never use anyway.
I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who are introducing
> iris and by the number of those people I haven't heard of.
>
True, and they have some very good stuff. The Northern Tour in Minnesota
introduced me to two more, and I have straightway ordered their things.
One, in particular, has never advertised nationally, as far as I can tell, and this
is a shame, keeping all of those very good irises in his area only.
In his RockyTop catalog, Phil Williams has always sought out introductions
from little-known hybridizers and helped to get their irises distributed.
I think I belong in that category, but I have faithfully had ads in the AIS Bulletin
since '77, missing two years, maybe, only because I moved during those years.
Both the hard copy and the electronic version are extremely helpful and
as far as I am concerned, user friendly.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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