CAT: less-than-helpful dates
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- Subject: CAT: less-than-helpful dates
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:40:19 -0600 (MDT)
Hello, everyone.
:-)
I have just spent a frustrating half-hour double-checking catalog
descriptions of several cultivars, and now I have a gripe. (Frustrating
half hour = gripe. Easy math.)
Why do some businesses print the introduction year instead of the year of
registration in the information they provide with cultivar names?
I can think of two reasons to provide dates at all: to give clients an idea
whether the flower will have modern form or not, and to allow them to look
up the plant in their R&I Checklists at home.
The Checklist flower description is found under the registration year, not
the introduction year, right? So why do these guys tell us introduction
year? I don't get it.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas
