CULT/SHOW: SEASON TICKET
- To: iris- talk
- Subject: CULT/SHOW: SEASON TICKET
- From: v* l*
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
> > > RYFigge@aol.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > My SEASON TICKET had two stalks with 4 standards
> > > and 4 falls each with
> > > > a beard -- but the 3rd stalk (so far, not sure
> whether
> > > more are coming)) was
> > > > normal i.e. if 3 is normal for this plant?! I'm
> > > beginning to wonder!
> > > > Rosalie nr Baltimore zone 7 ryfigge@aol.com
> > >
> >
> > --- John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Rosalie,
> > >
> > > My SEASON TICKET virtually always shows 4S and 4F on
> the
> > > first terminal
> > > bloom of almost every stalk. Other blooms are normal.
> > >
> > > I asked Rick Tasco and Roger Duncan at Superstition
> Iris
> > > Gardens about
> > > it and they said theirs does the same thing.
> > >
> > > Now here is the tricky question. SEASON TICKET with
> 4F
> > > and 4S as per
> > > above appears on the show bench. Since it typically
> grows
> > > that way, do
> > > you judge it or disqualify it? Worse, if a 3F and 3S
> > > SEASON TICKET
> > > appears on the show bench, do you disqualify it for
> being
> > > undergrown?
> > >
> > > John
> vince lewonski wrote:
I forwarded this message to Roy Epperson, since he has
written/rewritten most of the Judge's Handbook. Here is his
reply:
> --- "Dr. E. Roy Epperson" <epperson@highpoint.edu> wrote:
> No, 4S and 4F is NOT the normal conformation for SEASON
> TICKET. Does it
> throw these interesting flowers? Yes. Are the majority
> of SEASON
> TICKET blooms like this? No. I have grown this
> cultivar since its
> introduction and observe this behavior each season.
> Should such a bloom
> be entered as an exhibit in the horticulture Division?
> NO. The genus
> iris demonstrates everything in threes: standards, falls,
> style arms,
> crests, etc. Therefore a 4S and 4F specimen is not
> normal. Remember,
> many final flowers on all bearded classifications
> demonstrate 2S and 2F
> or 3S and 4F. I have always interpreted this as the
> announcement that
> that cultivar is producing its last blooms of the current
> season. Would
> any knowledgeable exhibitor enter these stalks? NO.
> These are
> interesting questions, but logic and knowledge of iris
> culture must
> prevail.
>
> As ever,
>
> E. Roy Epperson
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