Re: CAT: Desert Lullaby

Betty, I go even further--my cross numbers get assigned at the time I record
making the cross with a  letter for the year and a serial number for the cross
attemped.  That number stays with the seeds, then the seedlings are counted
down from where they are planted.  "R 30-5" means "R" year, 30th cross, 5th
plant in the row of germinants.  I may on occasion use a letter instead of a
number for the last designation for those whose position information got lost
or for second year germinants.  This coming spring has a "U" designation.

I rather suspect the Schreiner numbers are similar and I see other seedling
numbers that look like these, such as Suttons.  They look to have the same
form at least.

When I returned to irises after a twenty-some year break I backed up my seed
"year" letter as I had gotten up to "S" before I left Idaho, but never planted
the seeds.  They ended up dumped (I cringe at the memory) but I couldn't do
anything else with "P" through "S"--I had neither ground nor time.  So my
first crosses in this current round started over with "P."

I started the system around 1953, but with frequent breaks in the sequence,
the letters do not count off the years expired, just the years I was able to
make crosses.  The crosses I made before 1953 used another method.  They
hardly count--but I did register a few--using year selected, with the serial
order of selection, as in "56-17"--the seventeenth selection in 1956.  None of
those should ever have been named, but I got carried away with the excitement
of newness and my own immaturity.  Some of the names were good ones and I will
eventually transfer them to something better.  None of them remain extant
anyway.

Neil Mogensen  z   7   western NC

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