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be considered only as a temporary expedient while the variety is under- 

 going preliminary test. 



I. In applying the various provisions of this rule to an existing 

 varietal name which has through long usage become firmly embedded 

 in American pomological literature, no change shall be made which 

 will involve loss of identity. 



Rule 3. In the full and formal citation of a variety name, the name 

 of the author who first published it shall be given. 



Publication. — Rule 4. Publication consists (1) in the distribution 

 of a printed description of the variety named, giving the distinguish- 

 ing characters of fruit, tree, etc., or (2) in the publication of a new 

 name for a variety which is properly described elsewhere ; such pubH- 

 cations to be made in any book, bulletin, report, trade catalogue, or 

 periodical, providing the issue bears the date of its publication and is 

 generally distributed among nurserymen, fruit-growers, and horticul- 

 turists ; or (3) in certain cases the general recognition of a name for 

 a propagated variety in a community for a number of years shall 

 constitute publication of that name. 



A. In determining the name of a variety to which two or more names 

 have been given in the same publication that which stands first shall 

 have precedence. 



Revision. — Rule 5. No properly published variety name shall be 

 changed for any reason except conflict with this code, nor shall 

 another variety be substituted for that originally described thereunder. 



Emblematic Plants and Flowers 



State floviers adopted by the vote of the public schools, sometimes by the 

 legislatures (*), sometimes by choice of the people. 



Alabama Goldenrod 



Alaska Forget-me-not 



Arkansas Apple blossom 



California California poppy (Eschscholzia) 



Colorado Columbine 



Connecticut Mountain laurel 



* Delaware Peach blossom 



Florida Orange blossom 



Idaho Syringa 



Illinois Violet 



Indiana Corn 



* Iowa Rose 



Kansas , . . . Sunflower 



Kentucky .' . . . Trumpet-flower 



Louisiana Magnolia 



