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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Committee have in hand, and I com- 

 mend its adoption. Let us have no 

 more Generals, Colonels, or Captains 

 attached to the names of our fruits ; no 

 more Presidents, Governors, or titled 

 dignitaries ; no moi'e Monarchs, Kings, 

 or Princes ; no more Mammoths, Giants, 

 or Tom Thumbs ; no more Nonsuches, 

 Seek-no-furthers, ISTe plus ultra. Hog- 

 pens, Sheep-noses, Big Bobs, Iron Clads, 

 Lefjal Tenders, Sucker States, or 

 Stump-the-World. Let us have no 

 more long, unpronouncable, irrelevant, 

 high-flown, bombastic names to our 

 fruits, and, if possible, let us dispense 

 with the now confused terms of Belle, 

 Beurre, Calebasse, Doyenne, Pearmain, 

 Pippin, Seedling, Beauty, Favorite, and 

 other like useless and improper titles 

 to our fruits. The cases are very few 

 where a single word will not form a 

 better name for a fruit than two or 

 more. Thus shall we establish a stan- 

 dard worthy of imitation by other 

 nations, and I suggest that we ask the 

 co-operation of all pomological and hor- 

 ticultural societies, in this and foreign 

 countries, in carrying out this impor- 

 tant reform. 



As the first great national Pomologi- 

 cal Society in origin, the representative 

 of the most extensive and promising 

 territory for fruit culture, of which we 

 have any knowledge, it became our 

 duty to lead in this good work. Let 

 us continue it, and give to the world a 

 system of nomenclature for our fruits 

 which shall be worthy of the Society 

 and the country, — a system pure and 

 plain in its diction, pertinent and pro- 

 per in its application, and which shall 

 be an example, not only for fruits, but 

 for other products of the earth, and 

 save our Society and the nation from 

 the disgrace of unmeaning, pretentious, 

 and nonsensical names to the most 

 perfect, useful, and beautiful produc- 

 tions of the soil the world has ever 

 known. 



RULES OF THE AMERICAN POMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 These rules are recommended to the 

 attention of all horticultural and pomo- 

 logical societies, in the hope that by 

 concert of action some much needed re- 

 forms may be secured, especially as in- 

 dicated in that portion of President 

 Wilder's address which we copy in this 

 laumber : 



SECTION I. 



N'ltming 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 Societ}^ reserves the right, 

 in case of long, inappropriate, orotherwi.se 

 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 gen- 

 eral adoption. 



Rule 3. — The names of fruit shouhl, 

 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 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 recommended) .some valuable 

 or desirable quality or combination of 

 qualities, in a higher degree than any pre- 

 viously known variety of its class and 

 season. 



Rule (5. — 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 recog- 

 nized as such, so far as subsequent reports 

 are concerned. 



SECTION II. 



Competitive Exhilits of Fruits. 

 Rule L — A plate of fruit must contain 

 i six specimens, no more, no less, except in 



