Uniform Nomenclature of Fruits. 55 



first makes the discovery may give it a name ; or he may 

 refer it to the most convenient horticultural society for that 

 purpose, provided, that whatever action is had be imme- 

 diately made public. 



If it be true, as assumed, that many seedling varieties, of 

 greater or less merit, are cultivated in different sections of the 

 country, under the names of known kinds, then the applica- 

 tion and necessity of this rule need not be urged. 



Fifth : That the names given to new seedlings be suffi- 

 ciently distinctive to guard against and prevent their being 

 confounded with previously named sorts. 



The practice of naming new after old and no longer es- 

 teemed varieties, has been justly animadverted upon by Wil- 

 liam Kenrick, as tending to error and confusion. A once 

 esteemed sort may come to be rejected, if not from some de- 

 generacy or deterioration it has undergone by age, yet because 

 new and superior kinds have taken its place and driven it 

 from cultivation. If the name of such an one be given to a 

 new seedling, it naturally enough comes to pass, that one 

 cultivator who possesses and has tried the old condemns it, 

 another who possesses and has tried the new applauds it ; 

 both take for granted that the fruits cultivated by them are 

 the same ; and the public, looking on without suspicion of 

 the truth, are unable to reconcile such diversity of opinion. 



Sixth : That cultivators shall not, in any case, disseminate 

 a kind, unless certain that it is true to name. 



It is not meant by this, that a cultivator may not dispose 

 of and disseminate kinds, received by him from authentic 

 and reliable sources, before having proved them himself If 

 he have the same certainty, from the testimony of others, as 

 that upon which the verdicts of juries in our courts of justice 

 are rendered, it must be held to be sufficient. Otherwise, a 

 nurseryman at the west could not. propagate and sell from 

 trees received by him from a nurseryman at the east, though 

 his confidence in him of the east, and his faith in the authen- 

 ticity of the kinds should be implicit. But apart from this, 

 there is " ample room and verge enough " for the operation 

 of the rule. 



Seventh : That correct orthography, in nomenclature, be 

 constantly aimed at. 



