e species (or hybrid)
from which it was selected, as _Corylus Avellana_ cl. 'DuChilly' or
reduced to _Corylus_ cl. 'DuChilly.'

For the hybridizer naming and introducing new hybrids to cultivation,
the Code is more helpful than any previous set of rules and the needs of
hybridizers of various groups have been considered. Many examples
illustrating application of each provision are given in the unabridged
version.

The person naming plants will find much helpful guidance with regard to
the selection of names which should be considered if international usage
is to prevail. The Code is just that, a set of dicta provided for
guidance by horticulturists throughout the world that there may
prevail

a greater uniformity, accuracy, and fixity of names,
a lessening of procedures that would lead to confusion and error if
adequately supported or widely adopted, and
a provision for change and revision.

One section of the code ("C") dealing with Registration might well come
within the framework of interest and activity of the Northern Nut
Growers Association. This section, which suffers materially by
condensation in the abbreviated text that follows, occupies nearly a
page in the unabridged edition. It envisages the establishment of an
international registering body, with headquarters for different groups
located in different countries, e.g., that for tulips in the
Netherlands, for rhododendrons in Britain, for roses in the United
States, etc. The task of compiling, maintaining, and publishing such a
registrar (and rejecting names not in conformance with the Code) will
fall in many cases on the special plant societies concerned. When
societies for a given group of plants exist in 2 or more countries, they
will be expected to collaborate. Insofar as I know the Northern Nut
Growers Association has not set up any mechanism for the registration of
names given to cultivars, hybrids, and clones of nuts. To do so would be
to perform a very real service for your membership, for the industry in
this country, and would place the Association in a key spot when the
proposal for an international registry is activated. The agitation for
this phase of international application of the Code is considerable and
is more evident in Europe than here. If the Association takes an active
stand in the matter and develops a center of registry of nut names for
this continent, it may very well display a quality of initiative and
service