(updated 09/2007)
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2007 Popularity Poll
Ruth Barker, North Carolina
Thank you to all the members who returned their ballot for this year’s Popularity Poll. I received 29 ballots, representing 38 members. Since this was my first year in this position, I found myself eagerly awaiting the daily mail, in hopes of an orange ballot!
John White’s ‘Dirigo Pink Milestone’ continues its reign
for the third year in a row, with 12 votes! Of course, ’Milestone’ was just
announced as winner of the Payne Medal, also! Runners-up received 10 votes, 4th
– 10th received 7 votes, while the remaining received 6 and 5 votes
respectively.
As you can see from the list, we had many cultivars with the same number of votes. We want to welcome ‘Flashing Koi’, ‘Center of Attention’, ‘Dirigo Red Rocket’ and ‘Raspberry Candy’ to the prestigious top ten and several other new entries to the list.
|
2007 place |
Votes |
Cultivar (hybridizer/year) |
2006 place |
|
1 |
12 |
DIRIGO PINK MILESTONE (White '00) |
1 |
|
2 tie |
10 |
BLUE SPRITZ (Delmez '98) |
10 |
|
2 tie |
10 |
JAPANESE PINWHEEL (McEwen '88) |
3 |
|
4 tie |
7 |
CENTER OF ATTENTION (Rich '86) |
17 |
|
4 tie |
7 |
DIRIG0 RED ROCKET (White '01) |
17 |
|
4 tie |
7 |
FLASHING KOI (Marx '78 |
- |
|
4 tie |
7 |
LITTLE BOW PINK (Delmez '98) |
5 |
|
4 tie |
7 |
RASPBERRY CANDY (Bauer/Coble '99) |
17 |
|
4 tie |
7 |
SING THE BLUES (Reid '97) |
2 |
|
4 tie |
7 |
SUE JO (Delmez '03) |
5 |
|
11 tie |
6 |
ALL IN WHITE (Delmez '00) |
17 |
|
11 tie |
6 |
CAPRICIAN BUTTERFLY (Marx '85) |
10 |
|
11 tie |
6 |
ELECTRIC RAYS (Aitken '90) |
10 |
|
11 tie |
6 |
FRILLED ENCHANTMENT (Marx '59) |
3 |
|
11 tie |
6 |
LAKE EFFECT (Bauer/Coble '04) |
- |
|
16 tie |
5 |
BEWITCHING TWILIGHT (Harris '00) |
- |
|
16 tie |
5 |
CASCADE CREST (Aitken '90) |
9 |
|
16 tie |
5 |
CRYSTAL HALO (Marx '59) |
- |
|
16 tie |
5 |
IAPETUS (Innerst '88) |
- |
|
16 tie |
5 |
LION KING (Bauer/Coble '96) |
8 |
|
16 tie |
5 |
OREGON MARMALADE (Walker '03) |
10 |
|
16 tie |
5 |
PRAIRIE TWILIGHT (Hazzard '77) |
- |
|
16 tie |
5 |
TIDELINE (Bauer/coble '95) |
- |
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