PLANT NAME ABBREVIATIONS 



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ROSES— Continued 

 Cl.HT.— Climbing Hybrid Tea 

 CI. M. — Climbing Moss 

 CI. Nois. — Climbing Noisette 

 CI. T.— Climbing Tea 

 D. Pol.— Dwarf Polyantha 

 HG. — Hybrid Gigantea 

 H.Mac. — Hybrid Macrocarpa 

 H. Mos. — Hybrid Moschata 

 HP.— Hybrid Perpetual 

 H. Pol —Hybrid Polvantha 

 H. Pol-Ayr.— Hybrid Polyan- 



tha-Ayrshire 

 H. Pol-Rug.— Hybrid Poly- 



antha-Rugosa 



H. Rug. — Hybrid Rugosa 

 H. SB.— Hybrid Sweetbriar 

 HT.— Hybrid Tea 

 HW. — Hybrid Wichuraiana 

 M. — Moss 

 Mult.— Mult iflora 

 Nois. — Noisette 

 Per. — Pernetiana 

 Per-HT.— Pernetiana-Hybrid 

 Tea 



Prov. — Provence 

 Semp. — Sempervirens 

 Set. — Setigera 



Spin. — Spinosissima (Scotch) 

 T.— Tea 



9. Business Ethics: Unfair Competition, 

 Bribery and Graft 



Graft giving and receiving exist in the nursery business 

 just as they do in most, if not all, other businesses. Many 

 States have drastic legislation against it, and in some the 

 giving or taking of a bribe is a felony. The nature of 

 the felony is such, however, that it has been extremely 

 difficult to secure convictions, both parties to the transaction 

 being equally guilty, 



A new law, prepared by the Commercial Standards 

 Council, which grants immunity to the party giving evi- 

 dence, has recently been passed by New Jersey, making 

 it now possible to secure convictions. This same law has 

 been filed with the Legislatures of seven States and it 

 is hoped will be adopted in substantial uniformity by 

 these and all other States in the near future. 



The giving of gratuities to employees is done to induce 

 them to buy or overbuy or accept inferior products, etc., 

 and is perhaps the most dishonest and contemptible form 

 of unfair competition. The honest retail nurseryman and 

 seedsman is most seriously handicapped by his unfair com- 

 petitor, and it is quite time a higher standard of honesty 

 should be compelled by nurserymen as an organization. 



There are many kinds of unfair competition practiced, 

 as in advertising, descriptions, etc., and we believe the 

 time has come for nurserymen to take a definite stand on 

 this subject. 



