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2. The name should not be superlative or bombastic. In 

 particular, such epithets as New, Large, Giant, Fine, Selected, 

 Improved, and the like, should be omitted. If the grower or 

 dealer has a superior stock of a variety, the fact should be 

 stated in the description immediately after the name, rather 

 than as a part of the name itself, as Trophy, selected stock. 



3. If a grower has secured a new select strain of a well- 

 known variety, it shall be legitimate for him to use his own 

 name in connection with the established name of the variety, 

 as Smith's Winningstadt, Jones 1 Cardinal. 



4. When personal names are given to varieties, titles 

 should be omitted, as Major, General, etc. 



5. The term "hybrid" should not be used except in those 

 rare instances in which the variety is known to be of hybrid 

 origin. 



6. The originator has the prior right to name a variety, 

 but the oldest name which conforms to these rules should be 

 adopted. 



7. This committee reserves the right, in its own publica- 

 tions, to revise objectionable names in conformity with these 

 rules. 



These rules are simple enough, and their usefulness is unquestion- 

 able. The only comment which it would be worth while to introduce 

 here relates to rules 6 and 7. These involve again the matter of pri- 

 ority, which was discussed more fully in connection with the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society's rules for naming fruits. It is plain that, in 

 those frequent cases where one name has been applied to two varieties, 

 or tw r o names to one variety, decision must be made upon the ground 

 of priority. And priority may rest upon publication. And publica- 

 tion will be still more difficult to determine than in the case of fruits. 

 The names and descriptions of most kitchen-garden vegetables appear 

 originally in seedsmen's catalogues. It is hard to think that all the 

 catalogues published every year, some of them very slovenly affairs, 

 are to be considered a part of the permanent literature of horticulture, 

 and that such an important matter as our whole system of nomencla- 



