RE: HYB: Marking 'keepers'

Hi,

You mentioned a 'garden secretary'.  What is this?

Char, New Berlin, WI

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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:33 AM
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Subject: RE: [iris] HYB: Marking 'keepers'

Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net> wrote:

>
>How do the rest of you mark keepers?
>

With color codes.  Every cross got a black label when it was lined out.
[More than one label if there was more than one row of seedlings from the
cross.] Each individual that went on my "watch list" got its own a red
label.  Breeders got a blue label.  Those that survived the selection
sequence got an additional silver marker to identify them as candidates for
the "name game".  I kept a supply of paper tags in the garden secretary, so
that visitors could suggest names.  If I used one of those suggestions, that
person got a free rhizome when I introduced it.  Amazing how many paper tags
some of my selections attracted.....

Sharon McAllister

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