APPENDIX A." 



RULES OF THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 

 RELATIVE TO NOMENCLATURE. 



SECTION I. 



NAMING 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 Society reserves the right, in case of long, inap- 

 propriate, or otherwise 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 general adoption. 



Rule 3. — The names of fruits should, preferably, express, as far as 

 practicable by a single word, the charactei'istics 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 previously known variety of its 

 class and season. 



Rule 6. — 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 recognized as such, so far as subsequent reports are 

 concerned. 



SECTION III. 



COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 



Rule 1. — It shall be the duty of the President, at the first session of 

 the Society, on the first day of an exhibition of fruits, to appoint a 

 committee of five exjDcrt pomologists, whose duty it shall be to super- 

 vise the nomenclature of the fruits on exhibition, and in case of error 

 to correct the same. 



