SHOW: Historics
- Subject: SHOW: Historics
- From: v* l*
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:56:07 -0800 (PST)
From: vince lewonski <vincelewonski@yahoo.com>
---HIPSource@aol.com wrote:
>
> From: HIPSource@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 3/16/99 7:58:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
srust@fidnet.com
> writes:
>
> << I have never understood why a historical iris cannot be
considered for
> Queen (this has never stopped STEPPING OUT in our club!), but I DO
NOT want to
> start another upset, so I am not asking, only stating! >>
>
> Cindy, they finally fixed that rule.
>
> And not a minute too soon. Might have been riots if that went on
much longer;
> I'd have started them.
>
> Anner Whitehead
> HIPSource@aol.com
>
>
Vince sez:
The way it reads now, older varieties ARE eligible for Queen of
Show - but if there are two specimens of equal quality, you give the
nod to the newer cultivar. This is to promote advances in hybridizing.
This came from E. Roy Epperson, who I heard give a talk on changes
in the Judge's Handbook last year.
==
vincelewonski@yahoo.com
Vince Lewonski
Secane, PA Zone 6
Who does have STEPPING OUT...
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