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ticians, authors, millionaires, or others who 

 may become popular or famous in other walks 

 of life. Perhaps it would not be worth while 

 to attack this inference. 



The last clause of explanation under Rule 

 i raises a point which has been widely and 

 seriously discussed for years by American 

 pomologists. The citation of an actual case 

 will serve to make the difficulty plain. A 

 nurseryman goes into the remote rural dis- 

 tricts of Arkansas, or to other places, and 

 finds apples of considerable merit locally 

 grown, but unknown to the world at large. 

 These varities have local names, as, Arkansas, 

 Beach, and Oliver; but he brings them home, 

 propagates, advertises, and sells them as 

 Mammoth Black Twig, Apple of Commerce, 

 and Senator. Subsequently other nursery- 

 men may get cions from the same sources, 

 and may use for them the names locally and 

 originally known. According to Rule 3 of 

 the code in hand the names Mammoth Black 

 Twig, Apple of Commerce, and Senator 

 would have to stand (except for their undue 

 length or other conflicts with the rules). This 

 has been widely felt to be an injustice to the 

 horticultural public, yet it is hard to see how 



