Re: REF: amoena vs neglecta & bitone vs bicolor

--- "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:

> > Even so, in recent years, there has been a
tendency by some to apply the 
> term
> "amoena" to irises whose standards are, in fact, not
> white, but very light
> versions of the color of the falls.  One rather
> extreme example is BEST BET, 
> even though
> its hybridizer described the standards as "light
> wisteria blue".  

Griff,

Though you do not say that it was so, if the
hybridizer did not apply the more appropriate term
"neglecta" to BEST BET, perhaps it was due to
marketing considerations, since the literal meaning of
the Latin word is obvious from its English derivative,
and that hybridizer deals with a much broader
clientele than the iris cognoscenti.



  Remembering, of course, that
> "amoena", other than 
> historically being applied to a particular color
> pattern in irises, does not 
> in itself denote any color or pattern, but simply
> means "pleasant", so we, 
> as irisarians, can determine how the  term is to be
> used.  

Surely, if the word "amoena" is to retain any
usefulness as a term descriptive of color pattern in
irises, there needs to be some cicumscription of its
generally understood meaning for that purpose,
regardless of the literal sense of the original Latin.
(Or do I detect a whiff of the late-lamented "OT" in
your comment?).

Jeff Walters
in uptate South Carolina
USDA Zone 7b 




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