We are happy to grow and harvest plant material outside of our normal practices for customer specific needs or requests. In these cases, we use the Standard as a baseline in conjunction with consideration of our own experience, conditions and historically successful practices to determine the best sizes and methods for handling and harvesting our nursery stock. The standard defines terms and numerical.

In addition, some varieties are grown utilizing unique pruning and root system manipulation techniques more similar to those used in European countries. Provide buyers and sellers with a common terminology in order to facilitate transactions involving nursery stock. All nursery stock and unrooted cuttings shall be free. There are also regional and field specific situations where our 25 years of experience and thousands of trees harvested have shown the best practice may be outside of the guidelines in the Standard. See subsection 1.1.3.3 of the American Standard for Nursery Stock regarding unclassified containers. American Standard for Nursery Stock-American Association of Nurserymen 1997 The standards establish common techniques for (a) measuring plants, (b) specifying and stating the size of plants, (c) determining the proper relationship between height and caliper, or height and width, and (d) determining whether a root ball or container is large. However, in some cases Ruppert Nurseries grows, markets and harvest material that is larger than the sizes covered and the Standard. The Departments written approval shall be based upon the current edition of the American Standard for Nursery Stock ANSI Z60.1 for a minimum of a 1.5. The principal function of the Standard is to help buyers and sellers of nursery stock communicate with confidence by using a comprehensive and consistent set of measurement and specific nomenclature. Ruppert Nurseries normally sells nursery stock that complies with the standards found in the most recent edition of the American Standard for Nursery Stock (ANSI Z60.1), the вЂњStandardвЂќ. The American Standard for Nursery Stock (officially designated as ANSI Z60.1, and referred to here as the Standard) facilitates commercial transactions involving nursery stock by establishing a common language for sizing and describing various types of nursery and greenhouse grown plants.

American standards for nursery stock