JamesT said:There may be quite a few hybridizers who aren't AHS members.
It seems to me that all hybridizers should be required to be members of the ADS, otherwise why even have the ADS?
I noticed that at least one hybridizer offers the ability for customers to name and register one of their seedlings.
I think there is a continuum of value among the 80000 cultivars in the database, from these otherwise-culled plants through the best work of serious hybridizers.