Re: I.D.problems

Back when I took a whirl at retail sales of iris in the early '60's I
maintained a list of all I grew--and offered--that was drawn from R&I's and
CL's.  That was a lot more time consuming then than it is now, as back then it
was pen or pencil on paper, hand sorting into alphabetical order within type,
etc., then typing the list.

Now, the computer does all the hard work--all I have to do is fill in a few
fields with data, then if I want a print-out, I just call one up.

The trouble is--during the season when I'm receiving things I don't have time
to do the computer entries--and have to play catch up later.  I've discovered
a couple of times when I slipped down or up in the R&I's to the adjacent
registration.  Ooops!  Time to get the glasses checked.

Errors happen.  Should I ever again sell irises from a list, I'll have to be
super careful.  Just for my own enjoyment the list-making errors affect no one
but me.  Selling from a list is quite another matter.  I would be deeply
grateful for a list of corrections sent--at a time when I *had* time to tend
to them.

I've sent notes to a couple of on-line catalog suppliers calling their
attention to a discrepancy between registration data and a photo or a
spelling.  One was grateful--the other rather in a nose-tipped-up snoot (it
seemed) said they'd "look into it later."  The erroneous photo and description
is still in the site's webpage offering.  The error was glaringly obvious--for
an historic iris registered as white substantially pre-1960 a photo was shown
of a post 'Whole Cloth' dominant amoena.

I'll cut a lot of slack for a commercial grower sweating it out to try to
grow, dig, ship, and hoe with finite limits to energy and time---but, to
ignore a thoughtful message calling attention to a discrepancy this obvious or
to brush it off without thought does bother me.  The error message was sent
way outside of the busy season, incidentally.

Neil Mogensen

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