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authority except the indorsement of the Lazy club; but 

 the final adoption of a very similar code by some 

 authoritative convention of American horticulturists 

 seems to the writer to be inevitable. These are, in 

 fact, the rules which have controlled the nomenclature 

 in this book; and for that reason, as well as because 

 they will prove generally useful to plum students, the 

 rules are herewith reproduced in full. 



LAZY CLUB CODE FOR POMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 

 FORM OF NAMES 



1. The name of a variety of fruit shall consist of 

 one word, or at most of two words. 



In selecting names, simplicity, distinctiveness and con- 

 venience are of paramount importance. Pitmaston Green 

 Gage and Louise Bonne de Jersey are neither simple nor con- 

 venient. Gold, Golden, Golden Drop, Golden Beauty, Golden 

 Queen and Golden Prune, all given to different varieties of 

 plums, are not distinctive. 



The use of such general terms as seedling, hybrid, pippin, 

 buerre, damson, etc., is not admissible. 



Nouns must not be used in the possessive form. Mc- 

 Intosh's Red, Crawford's Early, Bubach's No. 5 must be writ- 

 ten Mclntosh, Crawford and Bubach. 



Numbers are to be considered as temporary expedients to 

 be used while the variety is under trial. 



The name of no living horticulturist should be applied to 

 a variety without his full consent ; and the name of no deceased 

 horticulturist should be used without the general agreement 

 of living horticulturists. 



An author publishing a new variety should use the name 

 given by the originator, or by the introducer, or else should 

 choose the oldest discoverable local name, providing such name 

 may be conformed to these rules without loss of identity. 



2. In the full and formal citation of a variety 

 name, the name of the author who first published it 

 shall also be given. 



Names would then take such forms as the following: 

 Summer Queen, Coxe; or Henry (Jerolaman) ; or Sophie 

 ( J. W. Kerr, Cat. 1894) ; or America, Burbank, New Crea 

 tions, 1898, p. 5. 



