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International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ("St Louis Code") adopted by the XVI International Botanical Congress,
St Louis,Missouri, July-August 1999, regulates the naming of botanical taxa:
http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/
SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm


Names of hybrids, Appendix I of the International Code of
Botanical Nomenclature ("St Louis Code")
regulates the naming of hybrids:
http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature
/code/SaintLouis/0001ICSLContents.htm


ISHS Commission Registration and Nomenclature,
International Cultivar Registration Authorities (ICRAs):
http://www.ishs.org/icra/index.htm

How to name a new cultivar, by Piers Trehane:
http://www.ishs.org/icra/index.htm

Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, the latest version
published May 2001:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/publications/
pubs/garden0501/colour_chart.asp


Hortax News - An occasional newsletter from The
Taxonomy Group; archive page:
http://www.hortax.org.uk/hortaxnews/
index.html#part4


Standard Specimens and Standard Illustrations, by Piers Trehane,
Hortax News Vol 1, Part 1 - 10 December 1993:
http://www.hortax.org.uk/hortaxnews/text1.html#sect7

Using colour charts, by Diana Miller, Hortax News Vol. 1, Part 4 - 29 April 1998:
http://www.hortax.org.uk/hortaxnews/text4.html#sect11

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