AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SO'/IETY RULES 129 



to any similar variety of the first rank already known, 

 or which, if only of second-rate flavor, is superior in 

 vigor, hardiness, productiveness, or other important 

 quality or characteristics. 



2. No new fruit shall be considered as named until 

 it has been accurately described by some person or 

 committee known to be conversant with existing varie- 

 ties, and such description shall have been published 

 in at least one horticultural or agricultural journal, 

 or some pomological work of acknowledged standard 

 character. 



3. The originator, or he who first makes known a 

 new variety, shall be entitled to name it, and such 

 name, if suitable, shall be adopted by the writer de- 

 scribing the fruit for the first time. 



But if the name proposed is inappropriate, or does 

 not come within the rules of nomenclature, the de- 

 scriber shall be at liberty to give a name. 



When two persons have named or described a fruit, 

 the name and description first published, if accord- 

 ing to the rules, shall have the priority. 



4. In giving names to new varieties, all harsh, vul- 

 gar, or inelegant names, such as " Sheepsnose,'' 

 " Hogpen," etc., should be avoided, and no name 

 should consist of more than two words, excepting only 

 when the originator's name is added. Characteristic 

 names, or those in some way descriptive of the quali- 

 ties, origin, or habit of fruit or tree, shall be preferred. 

 They may either be of intrinsic properties (as Golden 

 Sweeting, Downer's Late, etc.), or of local origin (as 

 Newtown Pippin, Hudson Gage), of the season of 

 ripening (as Early Scarlet, Frost Gage), of the form 



