Well Steve, I have read all the posts & I have never clearly understood the
scheme of naming, clonal, varietal etc. etc. & I am even more confused now??

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Steve wrote:
Diana Kulaga wrote:
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What this discussion has changed for me is that I will never again
give or trade away a division without naming the plant first. Time
to alter some tags....................................
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I've read all the posts (a couple of days late) and I've been
thinking.....
I don't have a question; I understand all of this. Suppose I buy a
seedling Catt, for example. Lots of other people buy a seedling from
that cross too. It's a vigorous grower and I soon have a few divisions
to sell or give away. I decide to give it a clonal name before
divisions go to other people. I name it 'Spee'. Meanwhile, someone in
California (who shall remain nameless) has purchased a seedling of
that same cross. By some great coincidence, she decides to name hers
'Spee' also. So I give away some plants, time passes and I loose track of
where the
plants went. Now our California grower takes her Catt Whatever 'Spee'
in for judging and it earns an award. Catt Whatever 'Spee' AM/AOS.
Now a couple of people who ended up with one of my inferior, not award
worthy, plants sees that 'Spee' got the AM/AOS. Oh boy! They add
AM/AOS to their tag because they read that the 'Spee' clone got an award.

As I said, I have no question. It's just that it's almost ... ALMOST
... a reason to refrain from giving an ordinary plant a clonal name. Maybe
it illustrates a reason to give truly unique clonal names (Spee should
have done it). The benefits outweigh the hazards I think. Give those
plants a clonal name anyway, because it does help keep a group of
clones all to be named the same.

Steve