Re: Uber den Volken
From: Mike Lowe <mlowe@worldiris.com>
Carol Warner writes...
>Offering an iris for sale at one of the convention auctions does, I think,
>constitute introduction. However, most times that information is not sent
>on to the registrar. In those cases you have irises which people assume are
>introduced but which technically are not official.
I would agree with this...however, there are several problems in the
method unless the hybridizer does simultaneous introduction via more
conventional means.
A search of 29 years of introductions, 1998 back to 1970 did not turn
up any '19__ Convention' introductions. Obviously, it has never been
reported as the sole method of introduction.
If the number of starts are limited it is a 'fragile introduction'
highly likely to prosper in distribution.
There is no recognized mechanism for notifying the Registrar that the
cultivar has been introduced. With the increase in Mini or Section
Conventions this becomes a more wide spread problem. There are many
instances, the latest the post 1998 National Convention guest
distribution, where guest iris were 'introduced' to commerce and have
appeared later in catalogs but have not been entered in the R & I
listing or the AIS Garden Awards system.
We need to emphasize the rule that NO registered but unintroduced
guest iris is ever distributed by a Convention where it is guested
unless the hybridizer has so specified. If it is the intent of the
hybridizer to use convention distribution as a vehicle of
introduction it is incumbent on the hybridizer to report said
introduction to the registrar. It may well be that distribution by
this method is a practice that AIS should discourage.
Cheers,
Mike
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