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applied to one variety it will be impossible, 

 without outside help, to determine which is 

 the older, unless both are published in such 

 a way that the date of their distribution 

 is known. This provision, in pomological ex- 

 perience, applies most sharply to the catalog 

 of the mediocre nurseryman. This man finds 

 it too expensive for his business for him to 

 issue a catalog every year, so he makes one 

 catalog do for several years by the simple ex- 

 pedient of omitting the date. Yet this is, un- 

 fortunately, the very style of nurseryman who 

 is always introducing new varieties with flam- 

 boyant, unsuitable, and ill-considered names. 



The provision that the " book, bulletin, re- 

 port, trade catalog, or periodical," in which a 

 new variety is published, shall be "generally 

 distributed among nurserymen, fruit growers, 

 and horticulturists," has its obvious meaning 

 and justification. 



Rule 5, the rule against revision, is redun- 

 dant, purely negative, and unscientific. There 

 is no real necessity for it. The four rules 

 previously given cover all the ground. Yet 

 the fifth rule is perhaps needed for emphasis, 

 and the emphasis can not be too great in view 

 of current practice in this matter. A some- 



