Re: Re: HYB: "Apogon hybrid"

Today this would be registered as a SPEC-X. that category did not exist until a few years after Ben registered Roy Davidson. When new categories are created it was traditional to go back a few years and pick up those that had been registered just previously. If that would have been done I suspect 'Roy Davidson' would have easily won the first Randolph Perry Medal and in my mind would have been deserving of the Dykes Medal. Because the new plants being registered did not wish to face that competition the politics was not to go back and pick up these plants. 
 
Apogon has degenerated into a bit of jargon for beardless Iris. It no longer has any scientific standing although it was once a scientific term. 

ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/26/05 9:33:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<< Hybrid, in this case, meaning inter-species hybrid. I think. >>

Well, I almost said so, too, but unknown parentage is unknown parentage, 
isn't it? 

It iseems to me this is sort of a sticky wicket twice over, what with 'Holden 
Clough' being very mysterious itself, at least at the time. But that several 
species were involved seems probable, yes. 

Of course, you could say that about a lot of garden irises of all kinds; 
indeed, when you get right down to it, right many of them could be classified as 
inter-species hybrids.

If Ben Hager did not feel he should register the iris with greater 
specificity, I'm inclined to follow his lead. 

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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