RE: Reaffirmation of Policy

["Terry Aitken" <terry@flowerfantasy.net>]

If the policy is in place, why reaffirm? Just publish it verbatim in the
bulletin. I would think it should be stated on the website as well.
The other (real) issue is to register the clones as you suggest. Waiving the
fee does not sound earth shattering but would require board action.
We (Aitken's Salmon Creek Garden)recently co-introduced I. tectorum 'Sun
Moon Lake'(Roy Davidson) and I fail to see where a $10.00 registration fee
would pose a stumbling block other than "somebody has to do it". If someone
is going to go to all of the time investment of propagating a clone for
distribution, the registration fee is insignificant.
It seems like some sort of publicity is really what is needed.
Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Pries
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:37 AM
To: AISdiscuss
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Reaffirmation of Policy

I am seeking the board of directorbs reaffirmation of a policy that has
been
in effect for 50 years but has had very little use. The policy is
essentially
that wild iris plants with good collection data will have any fee waived if
they are registered. In essence, the goal is to create living herbarium
specimens that document the diversity of an iris species. Since 1959 I can
not
point to an instance in which this has been done. Yet there are still native
plant collectors who find interesting iris variations in the wild and
distribute them. Presently most never get registered and these wild plant
enthusiasts are usually unaware of the Iris society having any interest in
native plants. I discussed this with our registrar Mike Lowe and he
confirmed
his knowledge of this policy and saw no problem continuing it. It was
presented to the AIS board in the late 1950bs by the famous botanist Dr.
Lee
Lenz who headed the scientific committee at that time. Dr. Lenz is in his
90bs and still working at Rancho Santa Anna Botanic Gardens on California
floras. In a practical sense it would cost us little. Even if I aggressively
sought out plants to be registered it is unlikely that there would be on
average more than 2-3 a year, maybe 10 the first year. I believe it would
enhance AISbs credentials for having an interest in plant conservation.
Remember these plants are not of garden origin, they would require data such
as state and county of origin. While more detailed location data may be on
file we would not want to be too specific in print so as to protect the
population from unscrupulous collectors.

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