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The rules adopted, and the portion of the President's address 

 referred to in the vote, are as follows: 



Rules of the American Pomological Society. 



Section I. Naming and Describing New Fruits. 



Rule 1. — The originator or introducer (in the order named) has the 

 prior right to bestow a name upon a new or unnamed fruit. 



Rule 2. — The Society reserves the right, in case of long, inappropriate, 

 or otherwise objectionable names, to shorten, modify, or wholly change 

 tlie same, when they shall occur in its discussions or reports ; and also 

 to recommend such changes for general adoption. 



Rule 8. — The names of fruits should, preferably, express, as far as 

 practicable by a single word, the characteristics of the variety, the name 

 of the originator, or the place of its origin. Under no ordinary circum- 

 stances should more than a single word be employed. 



Rule 4. — Should the question of priority arise between diflFerent names 

 for the same variety of fruit, other circumstances being equal, the name 

 first publicly bestowed will be given precedence. 



Rule 5. — To entitle a new fruit to the award or commendation of the 

 Society, it must possess (at least for the locality for which it is recom- 

 mended) some valuable or desirable quality or combination of qualities, 

 in a higher degree than any previously known variety of its class and 

 season. 



Rule 6. — A variety of fruit, having been once exhibited, examined, 

 and reported upon, as a new fruit, by a committee of the Society, will 

 not, thereafter, be recognized as such, so far as subsequent reports are 

 concerned. 



Section II. Competitive Exhibits of Fruits. 



Rule 1. — A plate of fruit must contain six specimens, no more, no less, 

 except in the case of single varieties, not included in collections. 



Rule 2. — To insure examination by the proper committees, all fruits 

 must be correctly and distinctly labeled, and placed upon the tables 

 during the first day of the exhibition. 



Rule 3. — The duplication of varieties in a collection will not be 

 permitted. 



Rule 4. — In all cases of fruits intended to be examined and reported 

 by committees, the name of the exhibitor, together with a complete list 

 of the varieties exhibited by him, must be deli'^gered to the Secretary of 

 the Society on or before the first day of the exhibition. 



Rule 5.— The exhibitor will receive from the Secretary an entry card, 

 which must be placed with the exhibit, when arranged for exhibition, 

 for the guidance of committees. 



