Re: AIS Awards
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: AIS Awards
- From: A* R* <a*@magic.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:34:39 -0500 (CDT)
> >The daylily folks insist that a cv be seen by judges in at least 4 gardens
> >in their region before it can be voted a Award of Merit. This means that
> >a hybridizer must get the cv into four gardens in as many regions of the AHS
> >as possible to work its way into the balloting.
Yes, I was going to mention the AHS system in which there are regional
favourites as well as national favourites.
> more weight to performance (in all regions) in the evaluation system and a
> lot less to show stalk characteristics. Or add an award that is just for
> performance.
Would awarding an iris an award for "performance" be damning it with
faint praise? Not that such a thing isn't of worth: just that if it
were "pretty," too... :-) surely it would win the top prize!
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Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@mpd.tandem.com, Austin, TX, zone 8b
Jill O. *Trades
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