Appendix B 



HORTICULTURAL STANDARDS 



Report prepared by the Committee on Standard- 

 ization of Horticultural Trade Practice^ American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen, and adopted at the Annual Conven- 

 tion June 28, 1923. 



Harlan P. Kelsey, Chairman^ Salem, Mass. 

 F. L. Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. L. J. Tucker, Madison, Wis. 



J. B. PiLKiNGTON, Portland, Ore. E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa 



Paul Lindley, President Charles Sizemore, Secretary 



1. Need for Standardization 



Business organizations are fast coming to realize that 

 loose and widely varying methods of business practice 

 are injurious to buyer and seller alike. 



The imperative need for standardized rules and prac- 

 tice among nurserymen is obvious and admitted by all 

 progressive nurserymen. In adopting these standards 

 the hearty cooperation of every member of the ^American 

 Association of Nurserymen is expected, and this will 

 inevitably result in incalculable benefit to nurserymen and 

 American horticulture at large. Changes and additions 

 that experience shows to be wise will no doubt be made 

 from time to time, but until such changes occur, this code 

 of standards shall be the basis for transactions by and 

 between members of the American Association of Nursery- 

 men. 



2. Reasons for Standards 

 Committees of the American Association of Nursery- 

 menr for several past years have made recommendations 

 for standards of grading, but these have failed of adop- 

 tion, usually because of minor disagreements, and so 

 today nursery practice is not uniform, but in a deplorably 



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