Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting: Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting: Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
Now, obviously, as happens with botanical names, the strict application
of priority might mean that a universally used name--say, Plum
'Victoria'--would have to be given up and replaced by a completely
unknown one. This is unthinkable, and, as in the Botanical Code, there
are clauses to prevent it happening. With cultivar-names, however, there
is a particular complication, which does not apply to botanical names.
The latter are all in Latin, whereas cultivar-names may be in many
languages. This means that a cultivar, raised in one country under a
name acceptable in that country, may be introduced into another country
where the original name is quite unpronounceable or otherwise
unsuitable. A new name is, of course, immediately invented by the
introducer, and clearly, in many cases, it is useless to try to make the
second country adopt the earlier, strictly correct, but unsuitable name.
The Code, therefore, allows the retention of the second name as what it
calls a "commercial synonym." Thus, Rose 'Permanent Wave' is a
commercial synonym in the United States for the Rose raised in Holland
as 'Mevrouw van Straaten van Nes.' In any formal list of Roses, both
names should be given, together with any other commercial synonyms that
may exist. The coining of commercial synonyms is not, of course, to be
encouraged, and should only be done if the original name is clearly
unsuitable for the new country. Frequently names are translated or
transliterated when a cultivar is introduced into another country, and
such a translation or transliteration is not regarded in the Code as a
_new_ name, but as the original name in another form; no difficulty,
therefore, arises as to priority in these particular cases.
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