MAKING AND FILING DESCRIPTIONS 9 



experience to answer the requirements under 

 most circumstances. Any one beginning a 

 new set of descriptions for himself, however, 

 ought to consider these designs carefully 

 from all points of view to see if particular 

 modifications may not improve these outlines 

 for his special purposes. 



Aside from the desirability of making these 

 particular adaptations of descriptive forms to 

 special needs, it should be borne in mind by 

 every working pomologist that there is, on 

 the contrary, a certain advantage in uni- 

 formity. If the various pomologists in differ- 

 ent parts of the country all use practically the 

 same descriptive form for apples, for instance, 

 then the descriptions made by each one may 

 circulate readily with the others. Different 

 descriptions of the same varieties may be 

 compared with ease and to some result. De- 

 scriptions published by one man are readily 

 intelligible to another, because they are ren- 

 dered in the same terms. The advantages 

 which belong so conspicuously to a uniform 

 system of nomenclature are to be found also 

 in a uniform method of description. It is a 

 noteworthy mark of our pomological advance 

 and a gratifying promise for the future that 



