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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY RULES 



IT has already been pointed out that the 

 foregoing Lazy Club code of rules has no 

 official standing. The only pomological rules 

 which do have are those of the American 

 Pomological Society, adopted many years 

 ago. These rules are as follows: 



1. The originator or introducer (in the order named) 

 has the prior right to bestow a name upon a new or 

 unnamed fruit. 



2. The society reserves the right, in case of long, 

 inappropriate, or otherwise objectionable names, to 

 shorten, modify, or wholly change the same when 

 they shall occur in its discussions or reports, and also 

 to recommend such names for general adoption. 



3. The name of a fruit should preferably express, 

 as far as practicable by a single word, the character- 

 istics of the variety, the name of the originator, or 

 the place of its origin. Under no ordinary circum- 

 stances should more than a single word be employed. 



4. Should the question of priority arise between 

 different names for the same variety of fruit, other 

 circumstances being equal, the name first publicly 

 bestowed will be given preference. 



These rules were adopted in 1883. They 



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