Re: HYB:Side Branch Anomaly
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB:Side Branch Anomaly
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:22:45 -0600
- Priority: normal
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> Well, as I understand it, if judges are doing their job, their two
> most important responsibilities are to judge irises in the garden and
> vote the ballot. Neither of which are based on show bench observations
> or qualities of an iris.
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> Now, that is not necessarily the way judges act, but it is the way
> they should. Consider the individual that sees a picture in email of
> something they have *never* seen in the garden and writes to the
> hybridizer saying they were "going to vote an HC (High Commendation)
> for the iris." Clearly an unethical act. IMHO those particular
> individuals should be stripped of their credentials. They have no
> business judging.
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> <Uh oh, sorry about the soap box speech)
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> John
My soapbox, too. Consider the credentialed judges who have
given up their gardens but not their judgeships and have moved into
apartments or retirement centers and still vote the official ballot by
digging out their color catalogs and voting on the pretty pictures!
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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