Xll TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



POMOLOGICAL RULES, 



As adopted, with additions from American Pomological Society. 



1. No new seedling fruit shall be entitled to the recommendation of this Society 

 until its qualities shall be ascertained by at least five years' experience in more than 

 one locality, and which is not at least equal to any similar variety of the first rank 

 already known; or which, if only of second rate flavor, is superior in vigor, hardi- 

 ness, productiveness, or other important quality or characteristics. 



2. No new fruit shall be considered, as named, until it has been accurately de- 

 scribed by some person or committee known to be conversant with existing varieties; 

 and such description shall have been published in at least one horticultural or agri- 

 cultural journal, or some pomological work of acknowledged standard character. 



3. The originator, or he who first makes known a new variety, shall be entitled 

 to name it, and such name, if suitable, shall be adopted by the writer describing 

 the fruit for the first time. 



But if the name proposed is inappropriate, or does not come within the rules of 

 nomenclature, the describer shall be at liberty to give a name. 



When two persons have named or described a fruit, the name and description 

 first published, if according to the rules, shall have the priority. > 



4. In giving names to new varieties, all harsh, vulgar, or inelegant names, such 

 as " Sheepnose," " Hogpen," etc., should be avoided, and no name should consist 

 of more than two words, excepting only when the originator's name is added. Char- 

 acteristic names, or those in some way descriptive of the qualities, origin, or habit 

 of fruit or tree, shall be preferred. They may either be of intrinsic properties, as 

 Golden Sweeting, Downer's Late, etc., or of local origin, as Newtown Pippin, Hudson 

 Gage; or the season of ripening, as Early Scarlet, First Gage; or the form and 

 color, as Golden Drop, Blue Pearmain; or which commemorates a particular place 

 or person, as Tippecanoe, La Grange, Baldwin, or any other titles which may be 

 significantly applied. 



5. The description of new varieties of fruits shall embrace the following particu- 

 lars : 



First. An account of their origin. 



Second. The fruit — its size, form and exterior color, texture and color of the flesh, 

 flavor, and time of ripening, with the addition on stone fruits of the size of the stone, 

 adherence or non-adherence of the flesh, form of the suture, and the hollow at tlie 

 stem, and in kernel fruits, of the size of the core and seeds, the length, position and 

 insertion of the stalk, and form of the eye. 



Third. The tree — its marked characters of growth, young and bearing wood, 

 foliage, and blossoms. In peaches, the form of leaf, glands, and size of blossoms. 

 In strawbeiTies, the character of the blossoms, whether staminate or pistillate. In 

 grapes, the form of the bunch or berry. 



6. No variety of fruit, vegetable, tree, flower, or other horticultural product, shall 

 be placed upon, or taken from the lists of the Society, unless it receive a majority 

 of six votes, of persons residing in the district for which it is recommended; and it 

 is recommended that no person vote upon the question unless he have personal 

 experience or observation of the qaalities of the variety in question. 



