AIS: HYB: Club Gardens/Trial Gardens

In a message dated 9/2/05 10:03:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rpries@sbcglobal.net writes:

<<  I wonder how many of these gardens there really are and if after a show 
or as part of another activity several people could fill out report forms on 
say 3 or 4 Iris. If 12 people did this in a garden you could have 30-40 Iris 
examined. If these were AM winners and data was collected from a couple of dozen 
gardens around the country a picture of regional/climatic performance might 
develop. What do you think? >>

I think you'd want to give some thought as to how varying levels of 
maintenance might impact those reports and that picture. I understand maintenance is 
often a bugbear with these projects. You could end up with a stack of reports 
which suggested nothing so much as that folks in one area did not take very good 
care of their public garden, or pampered it egregiously. 

It is not just the quantity of information that counts, it is also the 
quality of it. 

Just thinking aloud here, Bob, since you asked us.

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead

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