Re: seeking names

I'm not a hybridizer but I would like to add to the "looking for a name"
discussion.  Even if two irises look the same, they will not have the same
genetic material unless they were asexually propagated.  So naming an iris
can only be done by KNOWING what it is.  If someone makes a "best guess"
that an iris is such and so, treat it as that, a GUESS.  The reason why this
occurs to me is that I have often heard Lynn Markham and Marty Schafer
discussing their respective breeding programs and they "go on and on" with
fascinating discussions of how "the parents have ... in their ancestry and
here it is, showing up in the seedling".

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Kathy Marble <cmarble@tiac.net>
Harvard, MA
zone 5
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