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Andy should be the last one in the world to complain about orchid
dictatorships after bragging on the OGD that he will never permit me to
judge at the forthcoming WOC in Miami three years hence. Dragon Lady
indeed! And Fuchs' attempt to stop me from judging at Dijon on
the grounds that he had just declared me not in good standing as a judge in his
own totally controlled SFOS gives you some idea of how the Miami WOC will be run
locally. As for Dijon, Braem was conspicuous by his
absence, which I now fully understand.
I have had a successful scientific career
and regard the passive study of orchids from the vantage
point of a disciplined dilettante as a dalliance of my old age. I
have been involved in scholarly disputes involving far weightier matters than
the number of genera within the Laelia group or the
political advantages of holding international meetings in one location or
another. Are begonias apt to be less contentious?
Bert
Pressman
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