104 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



yet on the whole the sciences of botany and 

 zoology are immeasurably in advance of horti- 

 culture in this respect. We have, indeed, a 

 code of rules for naming fruits ; and though 

 these rules are not above criticism, they are 

 much in advance of the general practice in 

 nomenclature. It is safe to say that no one 

 fruit grower in a hundred has ever seen these 

 rules. It is also plain that the rules are 

 openly and flagrantly disregarded by many 

 nurserymen and writers on horticultural top- 

 ics. Of course some persons will never re- 

 gard the rules, no matter how perfect they 

 are, and no matter how strongly recommended 

 by the leading pomologists and pomological 

 societies. But the simpler and more funda- 

 mentally correct the rules are and the more 

 widely they are understood, the more difficult 

 will it become for any violations of them to 

 gain a standing. 



