[cdntomato]

Granny there are SSE members and there are listed SSE members. It's this last category that you are questioning, I believe. Listed or listing members are those offering something listed in that year's Yearbook. They themselves control the availability of their listings by identifying each listing as a HAS (available to any and all SSE members), LQ or MR.

The ones you are wondering about are earmarked in the document above by *. The controlled offerings are available only to other listed SSE members.

There are offerings that the listing member has in only limited quantities (designated LQ) and so are earmarked for the listed members only in order to control quantities of requests. The other designation is MR (must reoffer); this subset appears less frequently and is usually for varieties that are considered either rarer or otherwise hard to come by, at least in the eyes of the person offering. By labelling something as a MR, the lister is more confident that the variety will stay in circulation by someone who has already committed to the saving/sharing process by becoming a listed member.

Straight listing by species/name is incredibly useful but not enough to provide the level of information that the Yearbook itself provides.

And Granny, please keep in mind that just because something is offered commercially in the public domain, that doesn't mean that it's correct. Carolyn's Box Car Willie is just one case in point.

Thanks for posting, bc!

Jennifer