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tion. It is not a description, still less an advertisement. When a 

 man tries to make a name legitimate according to rule, new, short, 

 crisp, appropriate, euphonious, and then tries to crowd the descrip- 

 tion and the advertisement into the same word, he has undertaken a 

 hard job. He would better put the advertisement in large type at 

 the head of the page, and the description in small type after the 

 adopted name. It is nice to have a name suggestive of some striking 

 quality in the variety if that can be done without sacrifice, but the 

 temptation to use the name for advertising purposes has been yielded 

 to too often for the good of the horticultural public. And I believe 

 that those most guilty of this abuse have made very little by it. Let 

 us remember, then, that a name is merely an arbitrary sign for a va- 

 riety, and that the only absolute requirements are that it shall be 

 manageable and unequivocal. 



The name of the originator, discoverer or introducer of a plant is 

 always an appropriate name. I will not even except Maxjinowic/. 

 Many of our finest fruits have been named in this way to the perma- 

 nent satisfaction of everybody. There are the Hale peach, KirftVr 

 pear, Gano apple, Barry grape, Kelsey plum, and dozens of others. 

 The propriety of such names is widely recognized among botanists, as 

 we may see by looking over Primus bessei/i, Liliuni henry i, aud$/>ir<in- 

 the.s romanzoffiana. Among vegetables we see such names much more 

 seldom. The man who originates a new tomato is not content to call 

 it Jones, but names it instead Jones' Prodigious Rosy Red. The for- 

 mer is the better name, however. This method of selecting names, 

 when properly followed, has a wide range of usefulness. 



The name of a place where a variety originates is always proper 

 and nearly always satisfactory. We may cite Arkansas, Ontario and 

 Bethel among apples; Vergennes among grapes; Kansas, raspberry; 

 Iowa, plum; Kalamazoo, celery. A man who is in doubt what to 

 name a new fruit or vegetable should consider carefully the advisa- 

 bility of calling it after his own town or county or state. Such names 

 are to be recommended. They are too seldom given. 



