JungleShadows said:I don't know how Shirley Rempel got my Semp 'Jungle Fires' but IT'S DEFINITELY MINE!! It was from my first seed head of 'Jungle Shadows' and was the only red one in the batch. If anyone doesn't believe me I have Helen's catalog with MY NAME as the originator. As far as I know Shirley never really hybridized any of them.
It is wrong on the Czech list too.
I just saw my 'Minaret' on a German list as 'Minuet' by an unknown hybridizer! That was a plant I named in '69!!
Things get stuck in the literature and the errors keep getting repeated. Luckily I'm stil alive and CAN correct at least mine!
Kevin
JungleShadows said:Julia,
I don't think all nurseries are bad on things, they just take the names under which the plants they received were given and they ASSUME what they have is correct. I remember the anguish that Helen felt after Peter Mitchell ripped her nomenclature in her book. She had even prefaced a few descriptions with "as in the trade" knowing that the plants in commerce didn't match some of Praeger's descriptions for these plants. She was as careful as they come too. When the Dalton trials were completed it was Helen's plants that were the most correct of any nursery.
Am sure that someone in Europe transcribed 'Minaret' into 'Minuet' on a tag one day and a new semp was born. Amazing how mixed up things can get.
Maybe my sensitivity to these issues lies in having ~80 of my hostas stolen from me many years ago. These were later sold undrr the thief's names. Finally I got justice a year or so ago on some of them and I was given credit for creating them but of course no $$ for their introduction. The worst thing that can happen to a hybridizer is to lose his "children".
Kevin
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