Re: SHOW: International showing

 My question about international competition is one that
> hopefully someone on the list can use to enlighten us tyros: obviously
> for the Premio Firenze you cannot hop a flight to Florence with a
> waste basket filled with rolled newspapers and the blooms you cut that
> morning stuck in place. Are these flowers from the show bench grown by
> local growers and then cut for the show?

	Pose this question to Perry when he returns, but:

	This is a garden event that is held over days into a week or more or longer.  Like an
AIS Convention, the plants are sent well in advance of the 
competition, so they will be seen on established clumps.


	I am not trying to throw cold water on this, but you will notice that a lot of established
hybridizers in the USA don't exhibit there.

	Why?

	The process is so complicated that to me it isn't worth the 
effort.

	Somebody from Italy sends me the rules each year, and 
though they are written in English, one almost needs an interpreter 
to figure out what they are saying.

	I got about halfway through the process once, overlooked 
something I should have done earlier, and just decided to throw in 
the towel.

	The process of  keeping the names of the irises and their 
hybridizers  a secret is the complication,  but any AIS judge who  
is invited to judge and who has been around knows the named 
varieties anyway.  So, why go through this complicated process 
when the judges know anyway?

	If it were less complicated, more would participate.

	What does winning mean?

	So, those who have done it, please tell this audience how easy 
it is and how dumb I am!

	From the pictures I have seen, there weren't too many irises there
and a lot of the irises were in competition with shade and roots 
from olive trees. It is the luck of the draw as to where your irises 
will be planted.  I would really like to know how many guest irises 
there are and whose get stuck under the olive trees.

	Somebody else can take this from this point!  Probably a judge
who has been there and knows more than I and can refute what I 
have said, or one who has sent guests to Italy.

	
 Walter Moores
 Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA



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