RE: Re: I.D.problems

Here's my 2 cents from a newbie. Laurie is right. This year I saw in 3 commercial catalogs 5 different iris pictures that were totally labeled wrong.. When it comes to catalogs, sometimes just double checking for errors isn't enough. Catalogs need to be triple or quadruple checked for errors.
That's my also ranting for now, from a very tired irisarian who just dug, divided, and transplanted over 50 different iris plants today alone.


From: laurief <laurief@paulbunyan.net>
Reply-To: iris@hort.net
To: <iris@hort.net>
Subject: [iris] Re: I.D.problems
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 04 19:16:52 -0600

> 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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normal annual precipitation 26-27"
slightly acid clay soil

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