Re: AIS awards restricted to American irises
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: AIS awards restricted to American irises
- From: t*@Lanl.GOV (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:52:25 -0700
David writes:
:Yet the current criteria of AIS awards does restrict them to American
:introductions. As I understand it, an iris cannot recieve an AIS award
:unless it was introduced in the United States or Canada first. I find this
:restriction distasteful, to say the least. For one thing, it makes it
:sound like foreigners need not apply. Worse, it makes the AIS a provincial
:society, rather than a world-class society. I would like to see the AIS
:board repeal this restriction so that the best irises could win awards, not
:simply the best introduced in the United States or Canada. I am interested
:in irises, not locations of the commercial introductions of irises.
I agree! Once, long, long ago, I'm sure it helped give American iris fanciers
the incentive to hybridize and compete with the big French and British
nurseries. Today, the restrictions seems pathetically parochial. Who are
we "protecting" by keeping European and Australian irises out of the AIS
awards system? Since the vast majority of new irises are bred in the US
anyway, we might as well make AIS award eligibility universal.
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Tom Tadfor Little tlittle@lanl.gov -or- telp@Rt66.com
technical writer/editor Los Alamos National Laboratory
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