ut the International Committee is doing its best to push ahead
quickly with this very important side of their work.

At the end of the Code there are sections dealing with certain special
categories such as re-selected and improved cultivars, con-varieties,
clones, apomicts and line-hybrids, which are of interest mainly to
specialists in breeding and taxonomic work on cultivated plants.

I hope I have said enough, in this short article, to convince readers of
the JOURNAL that the Code is of some interest to them if they want to
use the names of plants so that other gardeners, both here and abroad
can understand what they mean. The next step is to read the Code
itself--first the Summary and then the full text that follows it. No
doubt many who do so will be put off at first by the somewhat legal
language used. One can only repeat the time-honoured defence by lawyers
when similarly attacked--that to avoid ambiguity experience has shown
that a certain amount of jargon is necessary! We have tried hard, in the
Code, to keep it to a minimum.

The International Committee is anxious to receive suggestions for
improving the Code, so that they can be discussed at the next
Horticultural Congress. All such suggestions should be sent to the
Secretary of the Committee (DR. H. R. FLETCHER), c/o The Royal
Horticultural Society, Vincent Square, London, S.W.1.

In the Historical Introduction to the Code (written by MR. W. T. STEARN,
Secretary of the International Committee, during the production of the
Code), Fellows of The Royal Horticultural Society will note, I trust
with pride, the important part played by their Society, in cooperation
with many other bodies and individuals in many parts of the world, in
the preparation, drafting and publication of the Code. I hope that they
will feel it their not unpleasant duty to make themselves and others
familiar with the provisions of the Code, to follow its rules and
recommendations when they use the names of cultivated plants, and to let
the Secretary of the Committee know how they think it might be improved.
Article I of the Code states that its aim is "to promote uniformity,
accuracy and fixity ... with the minimum disturbance of existing
nomenclature"--an aim surely close to the heart of every Fellow of The
Royal Horticultural Society.

I am grateful to MR. A. SIMMONDS, MR. W. T. STEARN AND MR. P. M. SYNGE
for help in the preparation of this article.

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