V 1 1 1 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, hardiness, 

 productiveness, or other important quality or characteristics. 



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

 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 agricultural 

 journal, or some pomological work of acknowledged standard character. 



3. The originator or lie 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 aud description first 

 published, if according to the rules, shall have the priroity. 



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

 "Sheepsnose," "Hogpen," etc., should be avoided, and no name should consist of 

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

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

 tree shall be preferred. They may cither be of intrinsic properties, as Golden Sweeting, 

 Downer's Late, etc.; or of local origin as Newtown Pippin, Hudson Gage ; or the sea- 

 sou of ripening, as Early Scarlet, First Gage : of the form and color, as Golden Drop, 

 Blue Pearmain ; or which commemorates a particular place or person, as Tippeconoe, 

 La Grange, Baldwin, or any other titles which may be significantly applied. 



5. The description of new varieties of fruits shall embrace the following particulars : 

 First. An account of their origin. 



Second. The fruit — its size, form aud 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 the 

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

 sertion 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 strawber- 

 ries, the character of the blossoms, whether staminate or pistillate. In grapes, the 

 form of 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 i-< recom- 

 mended that no person vote upon the question unless he have personal experience or 

 observation of the qualities of the variety in question. 



