What I really really want ...

From: "derek burch" <dburch23 at bellsouth.net> on 2009.01.16 at 02:28:22(18915) Aroiders, I should have said 'What I really, really need, but I don't think that anyone has written a song about that. Anyway, what I really, really need if the Cultivar registration is going to get off the ground is HELP (now someone did do a song with that title - or am I showing my age). On Aroid-l there is a section on Cultivars which includes a list of names that were known to be out there a few years back when people worked on that list. We need to bring the list up to date (a moveable feat here). That is the first bit of the assistance needed. Then I need to know for as many as possible the name of the print publication that has a date and shows the name and a "description' (as brief as "extra-large red flower ...) or an image. That "establishes" the cultivar epithet (that is its name).This is a term that the International Cultivar Registration Authority, the Big Boys, defines, and it has to have happened before an application to register a name can be made. That isn't quite true for applications that will come in for new name registration since I can do the establishment of the name and then pronounce it to be registered within a couple of lines of print - never mind about that for now. What I need is knock off this huge backlog of cultivar names, and I can't and won't do that alone. So, fingers on buzzers to volunteer to take over a genus or even to let me know of the one name whose place of establishment you know. Someone can do the dates of all the plant patents granted for me - all contributions gratefully received. But I am not going to work alone on this. Is the International Aroid Society up to the task, or shall we be about the only major group that can't do this to straighten out names for its favoured subject? +More derek@horticulturist.com will reach me off aroid-l, which is probably the way to do it. Sleep well tonight, your registrar probably won't. Derek _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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