Re: SHOW: Judging: Age and the Ideal
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: SHOW: Judging: Age and the Ideal
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:14:46 EDT
Greetings,
I'd like to offer a couple of thoughts that have emerged as others have
discussed judging, too-severe judging, and the Ideal.
First, the "Ideal" of a unique cultivar is an intellectual concept of
horticultural perfection distilled from the study of many specimens of that
cultivar. It is to be expected that all specimens of that cultivar will fall
short of this abstract Ideal in some way since it is in the nature of the
Ideal to be unattainable. The notable specimens will be those which, as grown
and groomed, most closely approach their Ideal. That is really all that can
reasonably be expected in the tangible world.
<< Once judging a show in SW Oklahoma with Perry Dyer, we proceeded to
disagree (in a lively manner) over this dark old iris with 2 or 3 open that I
wanted to only give a 3rd or HM. He wanted a blue.>>
Here it needs to be noted that the chronological age of the cultivar as
defined by its year of introduction is irrelevant for determining how closely
it approaches its Ideal. The Ideal against which DAUNTLESS (Connell, 1929)
is measured is the Ideal DAUNTLESS. The Ideal against which DUSKY CHALLENGER
(Schreiner, 1986) is measured is the Ideal DUSKY CHALLENGER. Clearly
DAUNTLESS could not meet DUSKY CHALLENGER's Ideal, but neither could DUSKY
CHALLENGER meet the Ideal of DAUNTLESS.
Anner, in Virginia
ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
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