What is a Cultivated Plant?
We actively cultivate many of nature’s own plants, whereas the Cultivated Code need only concern itself with man-made or selected material. I hereby propose the following definition of a cultivated plant for the purposes of the codes and would ask everyone to think about this and to criticise. The suggestion is formulated in such a way as to fit into any revised code as a primary principle. “For the purposes of this code, a cultivated plant is here defined as one whose origin or selection is due to the intentional activities of mankind. Such plants may arise either by deliberate or, in cultivation, accidental hybridisation or by further selection from existing cultivated stock or they may be selected from a wild plant population and maintained as a recognisable entity by continuous cultivation.
