Re: Re: CULT: # cultivars here, by decade
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: # cultivars here, by decade
- From: o*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:03:25 EDT
In a message dated 10/1/2002 12:55:22 PM Central Daylight Time,
lmann@volfirst.net writes:
> I don't have it in a database that would make it easy to do. And it
> wouldn't be very helpful, because of changes/improvements? in the way I
> get 'new' cultivars.
>
> I first started collecting in the 1970s, and for several years,
> everything I got came from either Wilds (Missouri) or Rancho de la Flor
> de Lis (New Mexico?). I ordered specific cultivars by description
> without any awareness of pedigrees.
>
This lack of attention to pedigrees created a more or less random sample from
that period. A necessity when attempting a statistical comparison. It has
value.
Bill Burleson
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