Re: I.D.problems

> How many iris growers even OWN the R & I's?  

This is a particular peeve of mine.  It makes me crazy when I see a 
commercial seller listing totally incorrect descriptions on their 
websites for iris cultivars they offer for sale. I'm talking about an 
iris registered as yellow being sold on a commercial site *with photo* as 
purple!  ACK!  I found several such glaring mistakes on a *single page* 
of one small iris nursery's website and emailed them with corrections.  I 
even offered to send them photos of the *real* cultivars they had named 
for sale, but they never responded.  I haven't been back to their site to 
see if they bothered to make the corrections or remove the misidentified 
irises from their listings.

I strongly believe that anyone who sells irises has an obligation to 
purchase a full set of CLs and R & Is and USE THEM to verify their stock 
prior to sales.  I can understand the average gardener not wishing to 
invest in the full set of registration info, but there is no excuse good 
enough, in my opinion, to justify a commercial seller's neglect to do so. 
 Heck, for a measly $10, they could have access to the online 
registration databases that would probably contain the vast majority of 
their stock, anyway!

It's one thing to have a seller accidentally ship a mislabeled iris.  
It's quite another to have a seller negligently misrepresent a named 
cultivar in their sales listing!

Rant over,

Laurie


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laurief@paulbunyan.net
http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/shadowood/irisintro.html
USDA zone 3b, AHS zone 4 - northern MN
normal annual precipitation 26-27"
slightly acid clay soil

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