ORIGINATING NEW VARIETIES. 115 



growing in Europe, producing a mass of loose leaves. 

 If he should succeed in doing so, he would approach 

 the skill of the prehistorics in plant-breeding. 



Naming New Varieties. The first thing in order 

 after the production of a new variety is to give it a 

 name or an appropriate title. 



There is no good reason why the originator or dis- 

 coverer of a variety should not use his own name, 

 Latinized or otherwise, in making up a title to be 

 adopted; some such form of title renders it easier to 

 settle identification should controversy (as has hap- 

 pened) arise thereafter in the trade. And why, in case 

 an individual name be preferred, should the introducer 

 instead of the originator, if they be not one and the 

 same, appropriate an honor that belongs to discovery ? 



But if it be preferred to form a name which shall 

 represent the character or type of the plant itself, let it 

 be purely descriptive, as for instance, Stringless Green 

 pod beans, White Spine cucumber, Long Scarlet radish, 

 Early Red- top Globe turnip. The name of a country 

 may always be used to good effect, such as Early York 

 cabbage, Long White Vienna radish. Avoid using 

 superfluous high-sounding adjectives. 



