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and color (as Golden Drop, Blue Pearmain), or which 

 commemorates a particular place or person (asTippe- 

 canoe, La Grange, Baldwin), or any other titles which 

 may be significantly applied. 



5. The descriptions of new varieties of fruits shall 

 embrace the following particulars: 



(a) An account of their origin. 



() The fruit, its size, form, and exterior color; 

 texture and color of the flesh; flavor, and time of 

 ripening, with the addition, in stone fruits, of the 

 size of the stone; adherence or non-adherence of the- 

 flesh, form of the suture, and the hollow at the stem, 

 and in kernel fruits, of the size of the core and seeds, 

 the length, position, and insertion of the stalk, and 

 form of the eye. 



(f) The tree, its marked characters of growth, 

 young and bearing wood, foliage and blossoms. In 

 peaches, the form of leafglands, and size of blos- 

 soms. In strawberries, the character of the blossoms, 

 whether staminate or pistillate. In grapes, the form 

 of bunch or berry. 



