Re: OT: judging and ethics
- Subject: Re: OT: judging and ethics
- From: P* D*
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:45:31 -0600
From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>
That's how most of our clubs do it in Oklahoma too. See there, Okies and
Texans CAN agree on some things (except football, of course).
Perry Dyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 9:46 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: OT: judging and ethics
>From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
>
>> For current AIS judges, what do you do when you are uncertain about the
>> identification of a particular cultivar? Do you give it the benefit of
the
>> doubt?
> What we do when faced with this problem, (none of the judges are
>familiar with this variety) we always have a clerk look up the iris in
>the R & I's. Our society now requests that the year of introduction be
>printed on the entry tag along with the rest of the information. This
>makes it easier for our committee to check them in and verify they are
>who they say they are and it makes it easier to find them if a judge has
>a question. Another side benefit is being able to pick out those to be
>placed in the Historic section easily.
> We also check each iris being given an award higher than a blue. As in
>best of section, best in show, best blue, etc. as a matter of course.
>It is really embarrassing to give an award to a misnamed iris.
> Additionally, if we have a doubt about an iris being correctly named we
>have it looked up. (I don't remember XXYZ looking like that?) Once in
>a while you will get a description that is so vague you still aren't
>sure (sky blue self; yellow beard) and in a case like that you judge the
>iris as it is named even if there are 3 different sky blue irises with
>yellow beards presented.
> In some shows there is a lot to look up so, to keep things moving we
>continue to judge the show while a clerk finds the iris in question in
>the R & I and then we go back to it.
> One last thing, we always make a note on the entry tag if an iris is
>found to be misnamed. This helps explain to the public (and the
>members) why this beautiful stalk with 3 fresh blossoms on a perfect
>stem was not given a ribbon.
>--
>d*@llano.net
>Dana Brown
>Pres. South Plains Iris Society
>Lubbock, Texas 79401
>Zone 7 Usda, Zone 10 Sunset
>
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