Workers Behind the Fuchsia Registration Scene
Elsie Sydnor editor

The information that follows represents long, involved hours of work by many people. First come the hybridizers themselves. Imagine the records they must keep! Measuring, testing, waiting must all try their patience. In Europe, the hybridizers first communicate with Assistant Registrar, Simonne Gijsels. She was asked to take on this job in 1999 by then AFS President, Al Sydnor. Ed Salome, who also assumed the duties of Registrar in 1999, often says he is not sure how he would manage without Simonne.

Hybridizers often have to communicate with Simonne and Ed several times until the new introduction’s description is just right. Sometimes names need to be changed because they repeat or are too similar to other introductions.

Typing the information from the registration forms into the descriptions that you see here in the Bulletin takes long hours, also. This year, Jean Durbin, Eureka Branch President, volunteered to help Ed with the typing. She generated fifty-one descriptions. There are a total of 327 introduction this year.

By the time they are sent to the Bulletin Editor, most of the work is done. Now it is up to the reader to appreciate all the work others do for the good of the fuchsia.

American Fuchsia Society Bulletin March/April 2006