AIS awards restricted to American irises
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: AIS awards restricted to American irises
- From: d*@aleph0.clarku.edu (David Joyce)
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:45:02 -0500
On the subject Re: Licensed Hybridizers
Christopher Hollinshead make several comments, including a reply to
Lbaumunk@aol.com wow wrote:
> I don't think so. The bottom line is that the IRIS, rather than the
> hybridizer, is of importance. Let's not keep that potential Dykes winner in
> the closet because its creator hasn't met certain criteria.
Chris replied:
> I absolutely agree about the IRIS being th important element here. A
> system of having registered/licensed introducers would not shut out/stifle
> the backyard hobbist hybridizer at all, in fact it may lend a level of
> crediblity to the small scale hybridizer that he would not have otherwise.
> (depending on the level of certification that he/she has achieved)
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.
David Pane-Joyce
djoyce@clarku.edu
