Re: AIS: medals
- Subject: Re: AIS: medals
- From: M* L*
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:05:26 -0500
From: Mike Lowe <mlowe@worldiris.com>
Dennis Kramb asks....
>The question: what are the species that won the Awards of Merit & Honorable
>Mentions this year? The bulletin only lists the cultivar and hybridizer.
The answers...
Award of Merit - Species
LITTLE RHYME (M. Schafer / J. Sacks) VERS unknown parentage
MAR JAN (H. Bishop) LAEV I. versicolor "Kermesiana" X unknown
Award of Merit Runners Up - Species
CASCADE CREME (L. Reid) SINO-SIB unknown parentage
MARVELL GOLD (J. Waddick) - I know this one! Iris fulva, yellow form,
collected in Arkansas, I think.
Award of Merit - Interspecies Hybrids
PARTY PALEFACE (L. Reid) SPEC-X Enbee Deeaych X Wild Party
DIMITY BUTTERFLY (L. Reid) SINO-SIB Butterfly Mode X unknown
Honorable Mention - Species
GORDONVILLE CREAM (D. Niswonger) SPEC I. pseudacorus 'chartreuse' X unknown
KING CLOVIS (E.& B. Tankesley-Clark) SPEC I. pseudacorus '#88' X self
SUN CASCADE (T. Huber) LAEV I. pseudacorus sdlg., double: (single sdlg x
unknown) X I. pseudacorus sdlg., single
Honorable Mention - Interspecies Hybrids
ROYAL DOLLY (L. Reid) SPEC-X (sibtosa) Polly Dodge X I. setosa alba
CASCADE VELVET (J. Halinar) SPEC-X 40 chr. siberian sdlg. X I. tenax
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Now having answered the above, permit me the luxury of being grumpy: can
anyone clearly and cogently explain the following puzzlements:
1. How can you designate something as an interspecies hybrid when
one of the parents is unknown???
2. Once upon a time I was led to believe that to qualify as a
species any such plant so designated should come true from seed. Do any of
the above 'species' come true from seed???
3. Polly Dodge (one parent of ROYAL DOLLY) is at least three
generations removed from the species Siberian parent: how can the progeny
from this cross possibly be termed an 'Interspecies Hybrid' ???
3. Does a cross where the progeny markedly differs from the one
known parent (GORDONVILLE CREAM) still qualify as a 'species.' ???
4. How do pseudacorus crosses qualify as 'LAEV' one time and as
SPEC (species) the next???
I have attended 3 or 4 species and spec-X Judges' training sessions, taught
by some of the outstanding workers in the field and I wind up more confused
and less knowledgeable after each session.
Kvetching,
Mike, mlowe@worldiris.com -- http://www.worldiris.com
South Central Virginia, USA; USDA Zone 7A
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