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Re: [PRIMROSES] [HUGE] World's Largest Hosta Seed List

I hope anybody offering seed lists of Hosta cultivars will warn their
customers that the plants will not be identical to the mother plant
producing the seed and should never be named as such. Even if there is 100
per cent sure self pollination, the offspring will not be identical.
Superficial similarity is not proof of identity. Only vegetative
propagation of a clone will lead to identical plants.

In addition they should inform their customers that most of the seedling
will be inferior to the parents.

The only known exception is seed from Hosta ventricosa which is apomictic.
Also plants from seed reliably taken from the wild in the natural habitat
may be given the species name. For the second generation the same rules
hold as for cultivars.

Hostas are deservedly popular because the plants are easily grown,
longlived, almost indestructible and nearly always produces fertile seed.
The latter property is also the reason why cultivar names often are so
terribly mixed up and plainly wrong.

I apologize to the experienced Hosta growers who already know this.
However, my experience is that there is a lot of gardeners which are
unaware of these facts or even do not care.


Hubert

Hubert Agback, Uppsala Sweden Min Temp -25C
Hubert.Agback@mailbox.swipnet.se

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> From: lisa <raffi@SYMPATICO.CA>
> To: PRIMROSES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: [PRIMROSES] [HUGE] World's Largest Hosta Seed List
> Date:  den 3 januari 1998 23:45
>
> Robineers,
>
> I just received the World's Largest Seed Listing (120 different hosta
seed
> items?) so I thought, nobody will mind my sharing this with you?
>
> I am going to select a few items from the list which I find interesting
> i.e. seed from: Blue Piecrustn & Hirao Zeus $1.25 per packet.
>
> Hypleuca & montana King James from Japan, at $2.00 per packet.  Azure
Snow
> & Regal Rhubarb (longipes Hypoglauca X nigrescens hybrid) $2.50 per
packet.
>
> Beatrice, Bravo, Dorothy Benedict, Fascination, Little Jim, Neat Splash,
> Nishiki Tsugara Komachi, & William Lachman (all being streak/variegated
> potential); Pycnophylla F1 and other goodies on this list.
>
> Anyone who wants to pursue this further, can telephone Peter/Jean RUH at
> 440-729-9838 to obtain the complete list and/or write to 9448 Mayfield
> Road, Chesterland, Ohio 440026 USA.
>
> I have been involved with a variety of Hosta Seed Banks over the years;
and
> just wanted everyone to know, it is really nice to see an excellent
> offering.  I had hoped he might have had more longipes seed, maybe Grand
> Slam and/or other new types from Japan -- anyone wanna do some trading
<joke>
>
> Hoping nobody takes this as an advertisement for Jean/Peter RUH, since I
> hardly know them; and am simply sharing a few thoughts, on what I see is
a
> good hosta seed offering?
>
> hosta sincerely yours
> Bill Nash <raffi@sympatico.ca>
> Guelph Ontario Canada
> "where temperatures today went up to 8o Celsius"... Spring is springing..
> yeah sure."
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