Re: AIS: 'Bored' and the Print Index
- Subject: Re: AIS: 'Bored' and the Print Index
- From: w*
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:02:04 -0600
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
>From: koekkoek@dordt.edu (Arnold Koekkoek)
>
>Answer to Walter's question (Why the hoopla over the new indexed list
>of all iris?) is, it seems to me, that by no means everyone owns all the
>R & I books, and to acquire them would cost several more dollars than a
>composite list showing cultivar, hybridizer and date of intro.
>Furthermore, unless one hybridizes, most of the pedigree information
>isn't relevant. As to color, of course this won't show that, but one
>can see that in the garden, one's own or somebody else's. Personally, I
>think the new book will come in very handy.
>Arnold
>--
Arnold, I guess I am just hard-headed. I cannot see the use for the
print-out. The information it will list is not enough to identify an iris
in question in the garden or on the show table. If you are about to name an
iris, it might help you in that regard, and let you know a name has been
used.
Not just hybridizers benefit from the full description. Linda Mann
and I (others, too) don't want early bloomers (they get zapped in our late
freezes), and I don't want late bloomers (they cook in the heat), Many look
at parentages and know to avoid certain cultivars and their progeny because
they sulk in certain climates.
Just looking in a book that has cultivar name, hybridizer, year, and
type of iris seems insufficient. You are going to wind up looking in
another book if you have further questions about a given iris.
I think I know now why AIS is printing just fifty.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 (still waiting for the October Bulletin)
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