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Mike Lyle wrote:
:: Phil L wrote: ::: Nick Maclaren wrote: ::::: In article , ::::: Sue Begg writes: ::::::: ::::::: I would have thought that if they were spreading by seeding ::::::: then they would have possibly crossed with something else and ::::::: would no longer be pure to the 'protected' variety ::::: ::::: It doesn't matter what a gardener, biologist or other semi-sane ::::: person thinks; what matters is what the bureaucrats and lawyers ::::: think. ::: ::: God forbid anyone should take any notice of them!....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. :: ::: 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...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? -- If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. |
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