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which we may hope will be soob, he the basis of a code generally 

 recognized by American horticulturists. The following is the 

 code: — 



THE- COKNELL CODE. 



Form of Names. 



1. The names of a variety of fruit shall consist of one word, 

 or at most two words. 



(a) In selecting names, simplicity, distinctiveness and con- 

 venience are of paramount importance. Pitmaston Green Gage' 

 and Louise Bonne de Jersey are neither simple nor convenient. 

 Gold, Golden, Golden Drop, Golden Beauty and Golden Prune, 

 all given to different varieties of pliims, are not distinctive. 



(b) The use of such general terms as seedling, hybrid, 

 pippin, buerre, damson, etc., is not admissible. 



(c) Nouns must not be used in the possessive form. Mc- 

 intosh's Eed, Crawford's Early, Bubach's No. 5, must be writ- 

 ten Mcintosh Red, Crawford Early and Bubach. 



The name of no living horticulturist should be applied to a 

 variety without his consent. 



(d) Numbers are to be considered only as temporary expe- 

 dients, to be used while the variety is under trial. 



(e) An author publishing a new variety should use the 

 name given by the originator, or by the introducer, or else 

 should choose the oldest discoverable local name, providing such 

 naine may be conformed to these rules without loss of identity. 



2. In the full and formal citation of a variety name, the 

 name of the author who first pubished it shall also be given. 



(a) Names would then take such forms as the following: 

 Summer Queen, Coxe, or Sophie (J. W. Kerr, Cat., 1894) ; or 

 America, Burbank, New Creations, 1898, p. 5. 



(b) It is expected that such citations of names will be used 



