thank you all for your opinions on this.
Fred, I don't hybridize, so I'm not sure if it even really matters that much to me as far as knowing that the name may be wrong or that it isn't registered. I just find it strange that someone wouldn't register a dl. I know it costs $ to register one, but I don't think it's that much and for a company with a website, catalog ect like they offer- I don't think they are hurting for $ exactly. The only reasons I could see for a company like this to not register a dl would be #1-it's really someone else's dl and they stole it by putting their own name on it, (which why I still don't know because most dl are not patented or whatever and everyone sells/trades them freely anyway, so what is the gain there? Maybe they can take an inexpensive dl, make people think its a new or different variety and jack up the price on it? or #2 it is a patented dl and they want to sell it without rights, but why? there are quite literally hundreds of other pretty ones out there, why mess with a scheme like this? I guess to me the whole thing just does not make sense. I did find Liberty Grand Lady on other websites and it is registered, so may one day order it from somewhere legitimate. The Dream Souffle is terribly pretty, but not registered. I wonder if it is registered as something else, but I guess there is no way of knowing. It just seems like alot of scheming effort to keep together a marketing and business --but for what gain?
