Hazelcrestmikeb said:At the very least seedling pictures would suffice for me anyway. Sdlg X Sdlg sounds better than Ukn X Ukn.
I take unk x unk at its sad face value. Sdlg x sdlg at least sounds as if the hybridizer knows the parents.
The AHS database has too many instances of pedigrees which were arbitrarily shortened for publication, presumably by the registrar, which makes me wonder just what the registration process is supposed to accomplish. Is its purpose to classify and record the history of the daylily's evolution? Or, is it simply a way to extract a fee for the privilege of participating in the daylily marketing game?
It's hard to say what drives the registration system. For instance, there have been rules in place for several years stipulating that a picture be submitted as part of the registration process, yet somehow there are still many entries which lack an image. Is this because the AHS is more interested in the $25 than the system which they have set up?
