Re: TRADE: help with lists, reinvent the wheel
- Subject: Re: TRADE: help with lists, reinvent the wheel
- From: a*
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:13:08 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., RYFigge@a... wrote:
> My advice is to start over and buy a few now and start a new list
next year.
Well, I did by a few this year, but clearly there were so many more
that had attracted my attention that I couldn't afford to buy.
> Some of these are very old and may be difficult to find.
Surely, if they are difficult to find then all the more rewarding if
I should happen to find one that I really enjoyed!
plus ones taste
> changes as you learn more about irises
Lol, this is an understatement, there are pictures circled in all my
catalogues that I look at now and wonder what I ever saw in them!
Next week I may like them again.
and why try to perpetuate old ideas?
Certainly one can argue that there must be merit to some of the older
cultivars and their forms, otherwise how would we have produced any
of the modern ones? But let's face it, older cultivars are cheaper,
and may contain some of the same genetic potential as the more modern
plants. We are all perpetuating an old idea the moment we buy the
newest introduction, because the hybridizer may be three or four
generations ahead of us into new territory by the time we get our
grubby hands on his/her newest and best. The tire companys still try
to come out with newer and better but are still limited by the old
idea of what a tire has to look like... hmmm.. I've lost my train of
thought, oh well, this is all just for fun anyway right?
Christian, Ky
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