PLANT NAME ABBREVIATIONS 



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8. Plant Group Names with Abbreviations 



Standard grouping and abbreviations adopted by 

 xAmerican Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomencla- 

 clature in ''Official Catalog of Standardized Plant Names/' 

 1923 Edition, to be used with Special Groups of Trees an 

 Plants. The A. A. N. hereby adopts these standards. 

 // 7nust be observed that many of these terms are useful only 

 in conjunction with relevant context. 



AZALEA: 



Alb. — Albicans (occidentalis x 



mollis and other species.) 

 Am. — Amcena 



Gand. — Gandavensis (hybrids 

 of pontica, lutea, and other 

 species) 



Ind. — Indian Azalea of com- 

 merce, apparently not de- 

 rived from A. indica, but 

 mostly from A. simsi 



Kur. — Kurume (sub-group of 

 obtusa) 



Led. — Ledifolia 



Mix. — A group of double- 

 flowered Azaleas, hybrids 

 between Ghent Azalea and 

 A. mollis and A. japonica, 

 known in the trade as 

 A. rustica florepleno and 

 designated in the Arnold 

 Arboretum Monograph as 

 Rhododendron mixtum 



Mol. — Mollis (this group con- 

 sists of derivatives of A. 

 mollis, A. japonica, and 

 hybrids of these species) 



Obt.— Obtusa 



Pho. — Phoenicea 



San. — Sander (form of simu 

 and obtusa) 



CHRYSANTHEMUM : 



An. — Anemone 

 Ast. — Aster 

 But.— Button 

 DeCi. — Decorative 

 Hairy — Hairy 

 Inc. — Incurved 

 Jap. — Japanese 



Jap. An. — ^Japanese Anemone 

 Jap. Inc. — Japanese Incurved 

 Lrg. An. — Large Anemone 

 Lrg. Fl. — Large Flowered 

 Lrg. Sin. — Large Single 

 Pom. — Pompon 

 Pom. An. — Pompon Anemone 

 Ref.— Reflexed 

 Sin. — Single 



Sm. Fl. — Small Flowered 

 Sm. Sin. — Small Single 



DAHLIA: 



An. FL— Anemone Flowered 

 Cac. — Cactus 

 Cel.- Collarette 

 D ec. — Decorative 

 Dup. — Duplex 

 Dw. — Dwarf 

 HC— Hybrid Cactus 

 HPFL.— Hybrid Peony Flow- 

 ered 

 Pom. — Pompon 

 PF. — Peony Flowered 

 Sin. — Single 

 Sh.— Show 



FRUIT: 



CHERRY, Prunus: 

 S. — Sour 

 Sw. — Sweet 

 D.— Duke 



CHESTNUT, Castanea: 

 Jap. — Japanese 

 Jap-N. — Japanese-native 

 EN. — European-native 

 CN. — ^Chinkapin-nativeChest- 

 nut hybrid 



