Re: Re: Re: (iris) Iris R & I Checklists

laurief wrote:

<<What part of that 'twere not so, Dave - the fact that it incorporated all
the '29 data or that the errata was supposedly corrected?  Was *any* of  the
errata corrected?>>

The '39 Check List did indeed incorporate all of the '29 Check List. It is
also true that the '39 Check List incorporated ALL of the *errata* in the
'29.
Back when the American Iris Society was first formed cultivar registration
was agreed upon as probably the most important project to be first
undertaken. This was necessary so as to prevent duplication of names and
outright thievery. Even back then, as it is now (sometimes) hybridizers were
reluctant to provide the correct parentage of their introductions. Unless
Mrs. Peckham was able to convince/wheedle/cajole/beg or plead I doubt that
the *errata* were corrected. Correcting all the *errata*  would be possible
if we were able to gain access to all the hybridizing records of every
hybridizer listed and we know that will never happen. The '49 Check List is
notorious for, having many parentages that are bogus.

Perhaps the most famous/infamous case is that of W.J. Caparne (Isle of
Wight) and Goos & Koenemann (G&K) in Germany. It is know that Caparne sold a
group of his seedlings (??) to G&K only to have those plants come back to
England later with new names and new parentages. There was a major brouhaha
about that at the time. So even some of the oldest names in the history of
Iris are not without taint.

And human nature hasn't changed!!!

At our society meeting last evening it was related to me that an extremely
well-known modern day hybridizer had taken  (I guess you could say stolen)
the introduced work of another extremely well-known hybridizer and renamed
it as his own. BOTH varieties were the recipient of the top award in their
class. And NO I will not tell you who they were!!!!

Dave Silverberg
Molalla, Oregon. USA, zone 7/8ish
V.P. Archivist/Historian HIPS

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