THE LAZY CLUB CODE HI 



whole name: " Louise Bonne de Jersey." He 

 is perfectly certain to abbreviate it. One man 

 will write it " L. B. Jersey," another "Louise 

 Bonne," another simply " Louise," and pos- 

 sibly another will write it simply "Jersey." 

 Then the man who sees these labels, espe- 

 cially if he is somewhat unfamiliar with the 

 names of pears, will be uncertain whether he 

 has one, two, three, or four different varieties. 

 After such an abbreviation is itself abbrevi- 

 ated or remodeled several successive times, it 

 is apt to lose its identity altogether. Even the 

 Ben Davis apple is frequently called " Ben," 

 though the Baldwin is always Baldwin. Some 

 parents name their boys Jack or Dan to pre- 

 vent other people from giving them nick- 

 names. 



A name should be distinctive for the rea- 

 sons just recited. If it is not distinctive, it is 

 not convenient. In the words of the code, 

 " Gold, Golden, Golden Drop, Golden Beauty, 

 Golden Queen, and Golden Prune, all given 

 to different varieties of plums, are not dis- 

 tinctive." They are, therefore, an inconve- 

 nience to the nurseryman, the fruit grower, 

 and the systematic pomologist. 



" The use of such general terms as seed- 



