Re: Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- From: J* C*
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:13:08
>As far as genetic factors are of concern, even a failed seedling does
>not have bad genes, but only an unfortunate combination of genes. By
>analogy, so called pure bred dogs are often at a genetic dead end.
Much easier to kill an iris than a puppy (specially a border collie :-)
My microcephalic kittens produced by my inbred abyssinian cat were not so
popular as pets. fortunately they were born dead. The first one we thought a
freak of nature, so we bred a second litter. A second monster kitten and we
bred no more, and desexed the healthy kittens.
I would liken some of the iris seedlings I have produced, to my deformed
kittens. Others are like Neils oversized bordercollie - not show prospects,
but rather likeable. I don't share them. If you share them, the person you
give them to shares them with someone else, and so on, and eventually,
someone decides it must be a registered variety, and finds a name for it,
and it goes on to be shared under that name. This is a common problem where
I live.
No worse than registered irises loosing their names and acquiring new ones,
I suppose. But why contribute to the problem?
Extra species seedlings are a different situation.
Cheers, Jan Clark, Australia, USDA equivalent zone 9
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