Licensed Hybridizers

About there being so many/too many new TB intros each year. Here is an 
idea to kick around. AIS Licensed/Approved Hybridizers.

1. How about having the hybridizers having to go through a one 
time qualifying period in which their plants would be evaluated by an 
already qualified hybridizer, kind of an official AIS apprenticeship.(AIS 
judges already have this kind of system and they "only" judge the iris, 
not create them!) I think this would "up the quality" generally overall 
and also reduce the number of intros per year. (certainly weed out some of 
the "unworthys")

Also there could be a new show category called apprentice 
hybridizer, where points could accumulate partially towards the 
qualification of being a licensed hybridizer. Garden assesment by their 
instructor(s) would 
importantly count for the remainder. So, there you have it, a LICENSE TO 
HYBRIDIZE. (really an AIS license to INTRODUCE) 
To initiate the new program, the AIS Board of Directors would initially 
have to recognize a selection of hybridizers as being of quality 
orientated and as teachers for the apprentices.

There could even be levels/categories for the hybridizers just as there 
is for judges. To draw an analogy, kind of an ISO certification 
recognition. Hybridizers could state their AIS license level in their 
advertisements/catalogs giving the buying public a guideline 
as to their current level of quality recognition.

2. My second suggestion is to create limits on the actual number of 
new intros allowed per year per hybridizer. This perhaps could also be 
tied into the level of qualification/license category.

Feel free to take this idea to the AIS. 
Or punch holes in it. ;>      

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Chris Hollinshead e-mail: bu336@torfree.net
Mississauga, Ontario Canada
Director, Canadian Iris Society
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