CHAPTER XVI. 



RULES. 



i. Loudon's Rules of Horticulture. 



1. Perform every operation in the proper season and in the 

 best manner. 



2. Complete every operation consecutively. 



3. Never, if possible, perform one operation in such a man- 

 ner as to render another necessary. 



4. When called off from any operation, leave your work and 

 tools in an orderly manner. 



5. In leaving off work, make a temporary finish, and clean 

 your tools and carry them to the tool-house. 



6. Never do that in the garden or hothouses, which can be 

 equally well done in the reserve ground or in the back sheds. 



7. Never pass a weed or an insect without pulling it up or 

 taking it off, unless time forbid. 



8. In gathering a crop, take away the useless as well as the 

 useful parts. 



9. Let no plant ripen seeds, unless they are wanted for some 

 purpose, useful or ornamental, and remove all parts which are 

 in a state of decay. 



2. Rules of Nomenclature. 



I. RULES FOR NAMING FRUITS, 



Adopted by the American Pomological Society. 



1. The originator or introducer (in the order named) has the 

 prior right to bestow a name upon a new or unnamed fruit. 



2. The Society reserves the right, in case of long, inappro- 

 priate, or otherwise objectionable names, to shorten, modify- 



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