Canadian Nursery Stock Standard - 9th Edition

This Standard is for use by professional horticulturists, landscape architects, and landscape designers who understand nursery stock attributes, plant nomenclature and terms commonly used in horticulture. It is not intended to be used in transactions with retail customers.

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Using the standard

Growers and distributors of nursery stock should ensure that catalogue and contract documents conform to this Standard. Those who specify or purchase nursery stock should ensure that they provide growers and distributors with specifications that conform to this Standard. Compliance with this Standard is voluntary. The parties in a commercial transaction should agree that this Standard applies. Any transactions that are not compliant with this Standard may result in conflict between the parties.

This Standard is for use by professional horticulturists, landscape architects, and landscape designers who understand nursery stock attributes, plant nomenclature and terms commonly used in horticulture. It is not intended to be used in transactions with retail customers.

Nursery stock production in Canada and the United States share many similarities. As a result, and to facilitate trade between the two countries, this Standard maintains reasonable conformity with the American Standard for Nursery Stock (ANSI Z60.1-2014) published by AmericanHort. One difference between the two Standards is the use of metric (Canada) and imperial (United States) measurements.

The revisions included in this edition were developed by the Nursery Stock Standard Committee of the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA). Prior to publication, the document was submitted to nursery/landscape associations, municipalities, and horticultural professionals across Canada for review and endorsement in order to develop industry consensus. It reflects the best practices of the nursery industry.

This Standard is subject to periodic review and may be updated at any time.

Comments and suggestions for improvement of this Standard are welcome. All recommendations should be in writing. They should be concise but complete, stating the issue and providing possible solutions. Provide references to resources that CNLA should use in making its decision regarding your recommendations.