Re: AIS Awards
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- Subject: Re: AIS Awards
- From: N* L* <7*@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: 24 Sep 96 11:29:10 EDT
Amy Rupp mentioned
>> the AHS system in which there are regional favourites as well as
>> national favourite
Point of clarification: It's true there are regional popularity polls (similar
to the symposium) for daylilies, but the Am. Hemerocallis Soc. awards are all
voted on a national basis. There was briefly a national, merged popularity
poll, but the disparities in membership and participation among the different
regions made it, well, unpopular, so they went back to regional polls.
The length of time between introduction and eligibility for awards is
definitely too short for daylilies -- by the time northern gardeners have had
time to get southern-bred hems established and grown to clump strength, and get
judges into the gardens to see them, those daylilies' award fates have pretty
much been decided by southern judges who've seen them for a few seasons
already.
Something like this must be true for irises, or how could a cultivar that
apparently only blooms every third year or so, like HELEN WOLFORD, win the
Dykes?
Nell Lancaster, Lexington, VA 75500.2521@compuserve.com USDA zone 6b
