Re: ROT, Neglect & TBs

Kathy Guest wrote:

:  Sterling Innerst (Dykes Medal winner for 1996 with BEFORE THE STORM) told me
:  that he used to agonize over rot.  He then decided that life was too short,
:  so he began ignoring the problem and (according to him) he stopped having the
:  rot problem!

He's certainly doing something right -- his STERLING MISTRESS is the most
vigorous TB in my garden.  

Gene Hunt (C.G. White awards for ESTHER, THE QUEEN and MARTHA MIA) told me much
the same thing about arilbreds.   Even then, most people did not follow the
"accepted" practice of annual transplanting -- so he felt that if something had
to be pampered there was no point in introducing it.   

If well-meaning folk don't intervene, both rot-prone TBs and and
suicidally-inclined arilbreds will quite effectively eliminate themselves from
the gene pool.   As long as a few of us diehards are committed to preserving the
species themselves, I don't see that effect on gene-pool evolution as a problem.

Sharon McAllister (73372.1745@compuserve.com)  
Climbing down from the soapbox now . . . .
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