Re: HYB.Breeding for Older Form and the Market
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- Subject: Re: HYB.Breeding for Older Form and the Market
- From: "* M* <i*@email.msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:03:06 -0700 (MST)
>Walta said:
>
><< One in particular a number of people want is the removal of the
statement
>that for the best specimen the nod should be given to a newer variety,
thus
>ruling out an historic as 'best of show.'
>
>Good grief, I would hope so!
>
>I would abhor to see some modern cultivar get an edge over another
splendidly
>shown specimen purely because it was more recent. This is the presumption
of
>"new is progress" operating at its absolute worst. Why, when I think about
>Copper Lustre or Beotie or Great Lakes or Henry Shaw or One Desire or Pewee
or
>any of many magnificent older irises...... well.... the mind reels....
>
>Anner Whitehead, staggering off to her fainting couch in Richmond Virginia
>
>
Anner, you can get off the couch now. I saw OYEZ win Queen of SHow only a
few years back at a show in Albuquerque, and that's about as historic as you
can get. Set off an OYEZ stampede around here; people have wanted it ever
since.
Barb Mann in Santa Fe
Region 23, USDA zone 5 or so
>
