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RULES OF THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



SECTION I. 



NAMING AND DESCRIBING NEW FRUITS, 



Bule 1. — The originator or introducer (in the order named) has the prior right 

 to bestow a name upon a new or unnauied fruit. 



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

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

 when they shall occur in its discussions or reports; and also to recommend such 

 changes for general adoption. 



Rule 3. — 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 circumstances should more than a 

 single word be employed. 



Rule 4. Should the question of priority arise between different names for 

 the same variety of fruit, other circumstances being equal, the name first pub- 

 licly 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 recommended) some valu- 

 able 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 re- 

 ported 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 OP 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 com- 

 mittees, the name of the exhibitor, together with a complete list of the varieties 

 exhibited by him, must be delivered 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. 



Rule 6. — All articles placed upon the tables for exhibition must remain in 

 charge of the Society till the close of the exhibition, to be removed sooner only 

 upon express permission of the person or persons in charge. 



Rule 7. — Fruits or other articles intended for testing, or to be given away to 

 visitors, spectators, or others, will be assigned a separate hall, room or tent, in 



