Re: Hortus Third
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Hortus Third
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:21:42 EDT
In a message dated 7/24/00 8:45:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com
writes:
what you've posted about committees/subcommittees is an especially
convoluted situation--one heck of an organizational chart, isn't it? To
complicate it further, major genuses have separate agencies for approving
registration of cultivar names. The Royal Horticultural Society, for
example, has a committee for the registration of daffodil (narcissus)
cultivars. >>
Yes, Bill, it is like a maze. I listened to a botanist speak at a group
program, her specialty was Labiatae. She was part of an program on herbs.
Ms. Botanist was a very good speaker and it developed that she lived in an
apartment having no garden, did not like gardening. Horticulture or
gardening touches on many of the sciences but is first a hands on activiity
that should be your pleasure. You can learn what you need or want to know
but a heavy load of science is not critical to a great garden. I am
concerned at times that this very analytical approach frightens away new
gardeners.
Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY z4
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