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New Rochelle, but is deficient of pollen, and should be planted in alternate rows, 

 or two rows of Wilson and one of Rochelle or Kittatinn}', which makes it very 

 productive. Charles Downing, Chairman. 



Report of the Committee on Pomological Rules. — i. No nev/ seed- 

 ling-fruit shall be entitled to the recommendation of this society until its quali- 

 ties shall be ascertained by at least five years' experience in more than one 

 locality, and which is not at least equal to any similar variety of the first rank 

 already known ; or which, if only of second-rate flavor, is superioi in vigor, 

 hardiness, productiveness, or other important quality or characteristics. 



2. No new fruit shall be considered as named until it has been accurately 

 described by some person or committee known to be conversant with existing 

 varieties, and such description shall have been published in at least one horti- 

 cultural or agricultural journal or some pomological work of acknowledged 

 standard character. 



3. The originator, or he who first makes known a new variety, shall be en- 

 titled to name it ; and such name, if suitable, shall be adopted by the writer de- 

 scribing the fruit for the first time. But if the name proposed is inappropriate, 

 or does not come within the rules of nomenclature, the describer shall be at 

 liberty to give a name. 



When two persons have named or described a fruit, the name and description 

 first published, if according to the rules, shall have the priority. 



4. In giving names to new varieties, all harsh, vulgar, or inelegant names, such 

 as " sheep's-nose " and " hog-pen," should be avoided ; and no name should con- 

 sist of more than two words, excepting only when tlie originator's name is added. 

 Characteristic names, or those in some way descriptive of the qualities, origin, 

 or habit of fruit or tree, shall be preferred. They may either be of intrinsic 

 properties, as Golden Sweeting, Downer's Late ; or of local origin, as Newtown 

 Pippin, Hudson Gage ; of the season of ripening, as Early Scarlet, Frost Gage; 

 of the form and color, as Golden Drop, Blue Pearmain ; or which commemo- 

 rates a particular place or person, as Tippecanoe, La Grange, Baldwin ; or any 

 other titles which may be significantly applied. 



5. The descriptions of new varieties of fruits shall embrace the following 

 particulars : — 



1st, An account of their origin. 



2d, The fruit, its size, form, and exterior color, texture, and color of the flesh, 

 flavor, and time of ripening; with the addition, on stone-fruits, of the size of the 

 stone, adiierence or non-adherence of the flesh, form of the suture, and the hol- 

 low at the stem ; and in kernel-fruits, of the size of the core and seeds, the 

 length, position, and insertion of the stalk, and form of the eye. 



3d, The tree, its marked characters of growth, young and bearing wood, foli- 

 age, and blossoms. In peaches, the form of leaf, glands, and size of blossoms ; 

 in strawberries, the character of the blossoms, whether staminate or pistillate ; 

 in grapes, the form of bunch or berry. P. Barry, CJiainnaii. 



Importance of Shelter. — The following preamble and resolutions were 



