RE: Shipping irises to Canada for the 2011 Convention

["Brad" <zebrairis1@aol.com>]

Hi Barbara,

Your understanding of the process is the same as mine and therein lies the
problem. It may have been wrong to grant the convention to a foreign county
unless there is a way to get all US hybridizers' irises legally into that
country.

Will's offer holds hope, but will Oregon's Agriculture Department really
agree to issue a certificate based solely on the inspection of dug rhizomes.
I for one will not be a party to sneaking irises into Canada and will not be
able to send them there because the state of Utah will not issue the
necessary phytosanitary certificate. 

Houston we have a problem!
Brad Kasperek

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of Barbara
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 11:24 PM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Shipping irises to Canada for the 2011 Convention

Hi Brad,
Beardless irises are being sent to a 'collection point' in Seattle this
year, to be picked up by people in Victoria and hand carried across the
border (to avoid delays in customs). However, these beardless irises will be
sent by the hybridizers with the applicable phytosanitary certificates for
shipping to Canada. These shipments will not be opened in Seattle, but hand
carried through customs with the proper phyto-certificate attached.

If the hybridizers prefer to send directly to Victoria, Canada, they can do
so, again with the necessary phyto-certificates for shipping to Canada.

Phyto-certs have to be issued by the state inspector, after inspection of
the plants in the garden from which they are dug. Inspectors in other states
can't certifiy irises dug from a garden in a different state.

Bearded iris guests will not be requested until 2009 for 2011.
Barbara Aitken


I was aware of the US Shipping address, but are we planning on smuggling
them into Canada without the proper Pytosanitary certificates or has the
State of Washington agreed to issue the necessary P. Certs. based on just
dug rhizomes?

All the best,
Brad Kasperek

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of Maureen Mark
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:17 AM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Shipping irises to Canada for the 2011 Convention

Hi Brad

  I believe that arrangements have been made.  There is a U.S. shipping
address as well as a Canadian address to receive rhizomes.

  Maureen Mark

Brad <zebrairis1@aol.com> wrote:
  Greeting All,

(Not another message from that pest Brad.) There is still another serious
item I believe needs to be discussed. Has anyone consider that some
hybridizers might not be able to get phytosanitary certificates to ship to
Canada? OR is Utah the only state that refuses to issue them?

Cheers! Brad Kasperek

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