RULES FOR NAMING VEGETABLES 183 



Nomenclature Rules 



Rules for naming kitchen-garden vegetables, adopted by the Committee on 

 Nomenclature of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations (1889, and still in force). 



1. The name of a variet}^ shall consist of a single word, or at most of 

 two words. A phrase, descriptive or otherwise, is never allowable; 

 as, Pride of Italy, King of Mammoths, Earliest of All. 



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

 such epithets as Neiv, 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 or dealer 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 

 Winnigstadt, Jones's 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 in- 

 stances in which the variety is known to be of hybrid origin. 



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

 oldest name which conforms to these rules should be adopted. 



7. This Committee reserves the right, in its own publications, to 

 revise objectionable names in conformity with these rules. 



Code of 7iomenclature of the American Pomological Society. 



Priority. — Rule 1. No two varieties of the same kind of fruit 

 shall bear the same name. The name first published for a variety 

 shall be the accepted and recognized name, except in cases where 

 it has been applied in violation of this code. 



A. The term " kind " as herein used shall be understood to apply to 

 those general classes of fruits which are grouped together in common 

 usage without regard to their exact botanical relationship, as apple, 

 cherry, grape, peach, plum, raspberry, etc. 



B. The paramount right of the originator, discoverer, or introducer 



