p75.pdf
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 19:22
Further to Nial’s comments about page 75 of the RHS Yearbook, I have
attached the two relevant pages
James Akers
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 18:30
Cc: American Daffodil Society List Server
As chairman of the RHS Advisory Sub-Committee on Narcissus Classification I
have been following the discourse concerning the definition of division
9 on Daffnet with a great deal of interest. The International Daffodil
Registrar, Sharon McDonald, on 12 October 2011 said on Daffnet that the
consultation paper on which the Sub-Committee has been working would be sent
to individual registrants and national daffodil societies and would also be
posted on Daffnet. It will contain two options for change and be
accompanied by independent notes of support for each one. The options have
been published in the Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2011 on page 75,
which will give everyone a preview. I urge everyone interested in the
future of division 9 to study these two options and the supporting documents
when they are posted and send their opinion direct to the International
Registrar.
Nial Watson.
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James,
I read the pages you attached. Both group #1 and Group #2 seem to be in the exclude category instead of the include category.
Question: Does the color Red or Orange every include shades of yellow and shades of white, or even shades of pink?
I’ve seen may a Division 9 daffodil that met all these “hoops” except for purity of color (meaning not red or orange rim) cast into the trash heap as Divison 3 daffodils. Sorry, I don’t agree, but then again that’s normal.
If we had this “exactness” in all the other divisions, I think that Division 12 would be overcrowded with the trash heap castaways from the various divisions.
LOL my two cents.
clay
Clay Higgins
Hi Clay
Don’t shoot the messenger. I sent out the pages, only because I had a copy in pdf form (I do the indexing of the RHS yearbook), but have nothing to do with the content, particularly of the poeticus debate.
Apparently you need also to see some other papers in order to make the decision, which wasn’t made completely clear in Nial’s original sending to daffnet, and these will be made available soon.
I set off to Spain in four hours time, hopefully to see the autumn flowering narcissus in the wild, so please get it all sorted out before I get back (said with tongue in cheek).
James Akers
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