Re: AIS:SYMPOSIUM IMHO

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	All of the reasons listed below are excellent reasons for growing a variety of 
iris types to accommodate your soil and weather conditions.  And, 
when these various types bloom, you have reasons for voting on 
them in an all-inclusive symposium.  An all TB garden is boring.

	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA

	

> In a message dated 8/31/2000 7:37:21 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> BigAlligator@aol.com writes:(Not really Big's words)
> 
> <<  I think 
>   some of the poor-growing TB's would be voted off if the ballot were
>   all-inclusive.  >>
> 
> So long as the MAJORITY of the responding members of AIS reside in a
> given area and/or befriend a given group of hybridizers, there will be
> irises that win AIS awards and remain on the symposium that do not
> grow well in other geographical regions or zones.
> 
> Let's fantasize for a moment and say that Linda Mann's yard suddenly
> became the iris Mecca of the world with near perfect temperatures,
> perfect seasons, etc.. Then let's move most of the AIS judges to
> Region 7.  (They'd move here quick enough anyway.)  
> 
> To further adjust the balance lets turn the entire western coast and
> half of the eastern coast into difficult soil with a climate that
> alternates between scorching dry summers and 'rollacoaster' winters.
> Giving time for programs to develop lets go ten years down the road,
> whose irises would be winning all the awards and whose irises would
> suddenly dominate the symposium?  The hybridizers with market savvy
> and charisma! 
> 
> Betty / Bowling Green KY USA (Hotter than ever) zone 6
> 
> 
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