Re: HYB:stupid questions department
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB:stupid questions department
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:27:13 -0500
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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
>
> There are many ways to code and track iris seedling numbers.
Probably, the one you mentioned is a coded number for the trials.
The most common numbering procedure, as you probably know
already is, 98-2-47, which means that 98 was the year, 2, was the
cross, and 47 was the number of the plant from the pod. Others,
reverse it or scramble it or leave out dashes or throw in a letter for
the second and third slots in my example. To each his own. Year
numbers may indicate how quickly a plant increases, or may
cause you to wonder why a plant was held back if you find a
number indicating 84 was the year this was hybridized. I have
seen this just recently....it appears some irises hybridized in the
eighties are 2000 introductions! The numbering is consistent with
these three offerings, so I am 99% sure these irises were
hybridized way back when!! I was still in my prime sixteen years
ago! Too long to hold an introduction, I am convinced.
Ben Hager tried to incorporate color codes in his seedling
numbers. If you knew his abbreviations, it was simple. If you
didn't, you had a Rosetta Stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and an
1880 US census combined.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
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