In a message dated 4/25/07 6:02:19 AM, Viateur writes: > "Beginning July 1, 1965, the American Orchid Society ... will register > clones of orchids" (page 614). > Is that registration still done ? / If not, when and why was it stopped? > That was before my time, but as I recall, it never really got off the ground, or lasted only a short while. It turned out to be entirely too cumbersome. Even today, with computers, it would be impractical. Trying to keep track of registered grexes is bad enough. Awarded orchids are not really registered, in the sense of registered cultivars. They are recorded in the awards records. Each awarding system has its own records. An attempt was made 30 years ago to archive the combined awards of the American & European systems, but that didn't last either. It would be nice if some enterprising organization put together all the award records. Maybe Alex can do it eventually. He has incorporated the CSA awards into OrchidWiz. Iris
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