Re: TB:Missing Parts on SA

From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>

I'm so glad to see this topic cropping up on the robin.  With the enormous
popularity of space age irises -- and the *explosion* of really good
hybridizing being done by several of our hybridizers, it's high-time we
spend more time emphasizing space agers in our judges training programs.
Maybe we could get Sutton or one of the other cutting-edge hybridizers to
conduct a session at the Dallas national?  I'm starting to accept
programs/judges training engagements again this fall, now that the OKC
convention is over.  I'll be teaching two hours at the Northern Oklahoma
Iris Society (Ponca City) on space agers.

For those of you in my garden last week, you saw Unicorn (Austin '54,
world's first space ager, I believe) planted in the same bed with the
wonderful modern stuff like Thornbird, Grand Style, etc.  "You've come a
long way, baby!"


Perry Dyer
Blanchard, OK



>>         Donald, I am glad you brought this up.  Should a horned variety
be
>> best specimen if it is missing a horn?   We looked this up in the JT
>> book, but it does not mention any penalty.  I think the terminal
>> really should be 'fully equipped.'  I voted to give this stalk of C a
>> blue, but I would not give it my best speciman vote.
>>
>
>I think it should depend on the cultivar. Some are inconsistent, even if
grown
>well.
>
>IMHO Thornbird should have either horns or spoons and should be penalized
if
>posessing neither. Msmmerizer should have flounces. I don't know the
space-age
>habits of Conjuration well enough to comment on it specifically (and I have
no
>idea how it grows in your area). How does it grow for you?
>



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