Re: HYB:Trail Gardens:Damage control

From: pharcher@mindspring.com
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [iris]HYB:Trail Gardens:Damage control!


I feel that at least one person in this group must have the wrong idea about
the actuall evaluation and use of an "official form "on plants submitted to a
Trial Garden.  Some of us seem to making this MUCH more complicated that is it
should be.  Maybe because they don't understand what is actually being
evaluated.

First and foremost the plants being tested are not untrialed seedlings which
have not bloomed or proven their characteritics to the originator/hybridizer.

The seedlings being submitted would normally have been grown in  hybrtidizer's
garden for (imagining) at least THREE YEARS and have been observed and culled
from others that were discarded from a batch of siblings.

I hope this wasn't in response to what I said re sending seedlings for evaluation. Just in case, an explination is in order.
I usually send only named varities or seedlings under serious consideration for introduction after extensive trialling in my own garden. There have been several that have been discarded after doing poorly in a trial garden.  On a rare occasion I have submitted several similar seedlings to see which one does best. 

Chuck Chapman

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