HYB:stupid questions department
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- Subject: HYB:stupid questions department
- From: J* B*
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:58:12 -0400
Newbies always begin perfectly logical questions that we have all asked
at one time or another with something like, "I know this is a stupid
question, but..."
To demonstrate a truly stupid question, let me try with this:
How do hybridizers come up with those combinations of meaningless number
and letters that make seedling nomenclature so entirely unmemborable?
You know, stuff like "The Premio Firenze for best seedling award went to
SS487GQ."
For years I thought they were showing just a leaf coming out of the
soil, or at best a fan, not some new flower that may one day set the
iris world on its ear. As a practicing wordsmith, I would be embarrassed
to put a beautiful flower on the show bench with nothing more memorable
than such a bunch of gobbledy-gook.
My guess is that this is some kind of code tied to bed maps, number of
attempts at hybridization or plants produced, the initials of a secret
admirer, the magazine they happen to be reading at the time and the
proportions for a perfect dry martini.
If any hybridizer would care to present a Rosetta Stone to seedling
nomenclature it would be greatly admired here in the hinterlands.
James Brooks
comeback@usit.net
Jonesborough, TN
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