Re: HYB:stupid questions department

In a message dated 6/10/2000 8:01:57 AM Central Daylight Time, 
comeback@usit.net writes:

<< If any hybridizer would care to present a Rosetta Stone to seedling
 nomenclature it would be greatly admired here in the hinterlands. >>

James,

I cannot speak for all, BUT here goes.  (This sounds like a Schreiner 
seedling) Often the first 2 #s represent the year an iris was crossed.  Some 
begin with the alphabet.  A (the letter) would be the year an iris was 
crossed, but AB might also be the year an iris was crossed.  If Schreiners 
follows this practice, and I don't know but seriously suspect they do, they 
have been thru the alphabet and back again ;-).  Others just use the number 
of the year crossed. 
 
Many start one way and switch halfway up stream.  I started with the 
alphabet, but switched to numbers at some point.  For me, A represents a 
cross made in 1986, but my seedling 9524-1Re was crossed in 1995.   

The next two numbers, an approximation, often represents the numerical 
sequence of the year's crosses, depending on the system used by the 
individual hybridizer.  In the above seedling, the number 24 represents the 
24th cross listed for 1995.  (When I sort seed, I replace their field # with 
a numeric listing of survivors.  Going by pod parent, I list seedlings first 
in a chronological order, beginning with the earliest/oldest seedling used, 
and then sort alphabetically if registered iris are used.  (Ex: A1-1re was 
the first reblooming seedling I saved, also from the first year of crosses.  
If it were used as a pod parent in a cross, it would be designated # 1 in 
that years listings.  Theoretically, 0301would be a cross made in 2003 using 
seedling A1-1Re as the pod parent, assuming I still had that seedling. ((I 
have some seedlings in which the second two numbers are in the 80's-just 
shows how compulsive I was in the earlier years))

Then I put in a dash.  (Others don't make it this complicated) After the dash 
I list the # of the select seedlings.  If it were the first to bloom among my 
reselect of that cross, it gets a 1, etc.  If it Reblooms in my garden, it 
usually gets a Re.   9903-1Re will represent the first seedling to rebloom 
from last years 3rd cross.  9056-8Re is a cross made in 1990, the 56th cross 
of the year, and the 8th rebloomer that was kept from the cross.  (And I 
don't have to refer to record books to know this)  

Ben Hager had a system uniquely his own for T.B.'s that allowed him, and 
others that understood his method, to look at a seedling # and tell why it 
was selected.  The seedling # for FRINGE BENEFITS is T428OLcOr.  Although I 
don't know his entire system, there is a good chance that T stands for Tall 
Bearded, Lc was Lace and Or is orange.  Hum!

Looks like there is method to this madness of seedling numbering!  ;-) Yes.  
I guess you could call it a code.  One that makes sense to the hybridizer.  

Betty in BG KY

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