Re: HYB: Databases
- Subject: Re: HYB: Databases
- From: w*
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:11:20 -0600
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
Sharon, thanks! Without digging out my notes, ROSALIE FIGGE, CANTINA, and
BLATANT are some of the newer things with VM in the parentage. Walter
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
To: Iris Talk Listserver <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 4:50 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: Databases
>From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
>
>Walter Moores wrote:
>
>> For several years, I have been working on an article called "Violet
>> Miracle as a Reblooming Progenitor." I sit down with an R & I or
>Checklist
>> and begin to read parentages and jot down information when I find VM in
>a
>> parentage. This is slow, frustrating, time-comsuming work. If I had a
>> searchable database, I could gather this information in a few minutes.
>VM
>> is as almost as productive as SNOW FLURRY was as a parent, and there is
>a
>> lot of information I need to get before I can actually start to write
>> anything.
>
>We don't have to wait for the Electronic Checklist to do this, the software
>is already available. I use mine mostly for my own breeding stock. For
>example, I can not only run pedigree charts all the way back to species,
>but I can also quickly find out what seedlings I have that are descended
>from a specific cultivar. Although I HOPE that the Electronic Checklist
>will be as versatile, I really expect to have to use the two in tandem.
>
>Walter -- if you'll write to me off-list with a few examples you've found
>of VIOLET MIRACLE's immediate offspring, I'll see what my database can add
>to your list. In addition to R&I information on the ancestors of my own
>seedlings, I've included quite a few rebloomers I was analyzing as
>potential parents. VIOLET MIRACLE itself wasn't one I studied, but there's
>a good chance I have extensive information on some of its descendants.
>
>Sharon McAllister
>73372.1745@compuserve.com
>
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