HORTAX NEWS
An occasional newsletter from The Horticultural Taxonomy Group

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Here you will find the contents listings of all archived newsletters (we list the most recent first). Direct links to all items in the body of each newsletter are provided, as in the individual Contents sections on the cover pages.

Part 1
10 Dec 1993

Part 2
19 Feb 1996

Part 3
16 May 1997

Part 4
29 Apr 1998

Part 5
31 May 2001

(Colours above approximate to those used for the cover pages of the corresponding printed newsletters)

Volume 1, Part 5 - 31 May 2001

Cover pages, including Contents
Editorial Notes
The Role of HORTAX - Some thoughts from the Chairman - Crinan Alexander
Postscript: The 3rd International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants, Edinburgh, 1998 - Mike Grant
XXVIth International Horticultural Congress
Other forthcoming Conferences
- Rhododendrons in Horticulture and Science, 2002
- 4th International Oak Conference, 2003
Report of the Inaugural Meeting of IACPT - Piers Trehane
Standard Specimens at Wisley - Diana Miller
Trademarks are not names! - Piers Trehane

Volume 1, Part 4 - 29 April 1998

Cover pages, including Contents
Announcing: International Association for Cultivated Plant Taxonomy (IACPT) - Piers Trehane
Draft BioCode - John McNeill
Directory of International Registration Authorities
New Daffodil Register
Electronic Nomenclatural filter
Third International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants
- Provisional scientific programme
Yes, we need the term "culton"! - Wilbert Hetterscheid
A comment on the culton concept - Timothy Walters
Culton: a useful term, questionably argued - John McNeill
Registration of plant names - test and trial phase - IAPT
Using colour charts - Diana Miller
Proposals for amendments to the Code - Piers Trehane
Proposals to amend the Code (1) - Staff from RHS, Wisley, UK
Proposals to amend the Code (2) - Nomenclature Committee, VKC, The Netherlands
A note on transliteration - Piers Trehane

Volume 1, Part 3 - 16 May 1997

Cover pages, including Contents
Editorial Notes
- Edinburgh 1998
- Acta Botanica Neerlandica
HORTAX Members' Notes and News
Cultivar-groups again!
- A note on cultivar-groups in Hosta - W I Pollock
Do we need the term "culton"? - C Alexander
The Code - contentious issues to be resolved
- The culton versus taxon
- The cultivar-group
- Trademarks and trade designations
- Hybrids
- Common adjectives as epithets
- Names of genera and common names as epithets
Changes to the Appendices in the Code
- Appendix II - Directory of IRAs
  New IRA appointments
  Amendments to the directory of IRAs
- Appendix XI - Checklists of ornamental cultivars
  Additions and Corrections - A O Tucker and F Vrugtman

Volume 1, Part 2 - 19 February 1996

Cover pages, including Contents
Editorial Notes
HORTAX Members' Notes and News
Cultivar-groups - A sensible approach - Allen Coombes
Cultivar-groups - A systematic approach - Wilbert Hettersheid
Cultivar-groups - A concept in need of clarification - Piers Trehane
Nomenclature of Annuals and Bedding Plants - discussion paper - Graham Rice
Authorship of cultivar epithets and IRAs - Piers Trehane
New Checklists and Registers
Changes to the Appendices of the Code

Volume 1, Part 1 - 10 December 1993

Cover pages, including Contents
Editorial Notes
HORTAX Members' Notes and News
The Joy of Ex - Graham Rice
Solutions to some species/cultivar problems - Allen Coombes
Correcting cultivar names: how far should one go? - Alan Leslie
That Multiplication Sign - Alan Leslie
Standard Specimens and Standard Illustrations - Piers Trehane

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