Phil L wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
Phil L wrote:
[...]
I noticed a
capital P on a label stuck in some lobelia seedlings in the
supermarket the other day...the P is for protection! - it's just
another 'jobs for the boys' ruling

Well...but I hope you don't want plant breeding and selection to
stop altogether because it doesn't pay. That "job for the boys"
is
somebody's by no means risk-free living, and is very likely the
result of years of experience and training.

So?
My dad was a painter and decorator but he didn't pay the government
to pass a law stating that all DIY decorating should be banned.

You are certainly far too intelligent to imagine that I'm not
intelligent enough to see why that's a load of dulux. So who is your
target audience?

like the ones where it's now
illegal to replce a lightswitch in your house, or replace a pane
of glass.

It is? OK, Officer, I surrender: you no doubt have a copy of the
law for me or my representative to read. I smell straight
bananas,
wrapped (unhygienically and so perhaps illegally) in discarded
pages of the Daily Mail.

You have to be a qualified electrician to do electrical work and be
a
member of 'FENSA' to replace glass...

Where? Since when? By whose rules?

it's going the same way as
plumbing....it's all safety and who can argue against that? -
maybe
decorators *will* get a law passed, based on the stupidity of the
average person who thinks he can reach 'if I just stand on this
box....'


- To the OP, do what you want, unless you are doing it on a
grand
scale (anything larger than supplying a couple of greengrocers
for
example) you won't get your collar felt.

That at least is almost right. Nobody's going to hassle you for a
few plants from seed sold for a registered charity or even maybe
a
bit of beer money; flog rooted cuttings to a High-Street shop,
and
I begin to lose sympathy.

Why? - if I've had fuchsias growing for the past 20 years and
decide
to flog 12 dozen cuttings to the corner shop, what harm has been
done? - his regular supplier has lost a few quid?

Again, if you follow urg you're surely far too intelligent to imagine
that that is what plant breeders' rights are about. So why say it?

--
Mike.