dave said:Well, keep in mind Kent that if a plant has nothing entered into a specific data field, it simply doesn't show up. So it would be used for the plants where it's applicable and disregarded for the others.
Certainly, but that wasn't entirely the point I was trying to make. There were actually three, but I obviously made them poorly, so perhaps they should have been more clearly separated?
1. Many plants in the database weren't bred by anyone, so the Hybridizer and Year of Introduction fields aren't really "universal" in any sense.
2. Even among plants that were bred by someone, "Hybridizer" will be the appropriate term for some, but certainly not all of them
3. Year of Introduction, which seems like it ought to be a simple and straightforward concept, is actually handled rather differently by various plant societies.
