Re: AIS: A Modest Proposal
- Subject: Re: AIS: A Modest Proposal
- From: D* E*
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:59:23 -0800
From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
Mike,
Thanks for the clarification on the poll. My memory told me it
could include cultivars other than TBs, but when I went and read
the title "1st Annual WIS Tall Bearded Popularity Poll" instead of
the "1st Annual WIS Iris Popularity Poll", I concluded my faulty
memory had struck again.
So there has been a place to vote for a while now. I actually did
on this one, but not on the AIS symposium due to my doubts on
whether I have grown enough cultivars to justify my vote.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7
> Donald Eaves writes...
>
> >I wrote earlier:
> >> Mike Lowe had a symposium going along these lines. I believe
> >> it is still open on his WOI website. Isn't it?
> >>
> >Well, I went and checked. Mike's poll is restricted to TBs.
>
> Au contraire...
>
> Below is the header explaining the poll ***!!!BUT NOTICE!!!*** there is a
> space for 'write-ins' at the bottom. (the actual form, not the
directions)
> I was not sure if 'write-ins' were a do-able thing and did not 'push
them'
> but did mention that it was allowed. Now I wish I had pushed harder...
but
> that is hindsight. The directions for the 2000 Poll WILL 'push'
write-ins!
> (Polls are always dated with the year results are published)
>
> I am about to close the poll, augment it with last years winners IN ALL
> CATEGORIES from ALL symposia, National competitions, BIS awards, AIS
> awards, etc., and ALL iris that either received a vote OR were 'written
in'
> on the 99 Poll. The tough part is obtaining results from around the
world.
> We don't realize how 'North American' centric the internet really is!
>
> The only rub on all these things is that I often have too many balls in
the
> air to really do a complete, finished job on any of them. I am pushing
hard
> to complete an online, interactive, searchable database of iris
pedigrees,
> and that is stealing time from everything else.
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
_
> ...Instruction Header from the online symposium....
>
> {{{1st Annual WIS Tall Bearded Popularity Poll
> This is an attempt to formulate a "World Iris Popularity Poll" that will
> give some indication of those iris cultivars that are favorites
throughout
> the iris growing world. For a start, it is modeled on the AIS Symposium,
> and in fact, uses the list of iris on the 1999 AIS Symposium.
>
> ANYONE who has sufficient interest in iris to have navigated to this page
> is welcome to vote. (Please don't 'stuff the ballot box' by voting more
> than once!) You don't have to vote the full 25 allowed -- even if you are
> only familiar with a few of the iris in this poll please vote for those
> that you know and like!
>
> For future World Iris Popularity Polls, the ballot list will be augmented
> by cultivars from the "Write-in list." Suggestions as to what other
> criteria should be used to place cultivars on this list are welcome. Some
> suggestions have been to include cultivars winning AM equivalents from
> various National societies, the Primo Firenze winners, cultivars selected
> for trial at Wisley, etc.)))
>
____________________________________________________________________________
_
> Cheers,
>
> Mike, mlowe@worldiris.com -- http://www.worldiris.com
> South Central Virginia, USA; USDA Zone 7A
>
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