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Another . point as to form of nanies is that they should be 

 cleared of titles and of accessory participles. Such titles as 

 General, Major, President, Lord or even Miss or Mrs. should 

 not be permissible. French names, very noticeable in our pears,, 

 often have the participles de as Bon de Jersey and there is a 

 tendency to use the corresponding participle of in English aijd 

 American names. This should not be permissible excepting 

 now and then as a concession for the sake of euphony. 



Names from adjectives are frequently in good form, especi- 

 ally if the describing word be apt, and euphonious, thus ; Yellow 

 Transparent, Wine Sap and Limbertwig for apples are not bad. 

 No form of name, however, is more abused than the descriptive 

 adjective. Such nanies are often too lengthy, or border on the 

 bombastic, and more than any other form are likely to be 

 synonymous. 



Latin or Latinized names are not in good form and should not 

 be permissible. Pomologists err but little in this direction, but 

 florists and vegetable growers show a tendency to do so. 



Oethography. — In any code of rules something should be 

 said in regard to orthography. Much confusion now exists 

 as to the spelling of many names in horticulture. This is par- 

 ticularly true of the French, Russian and Japanese names and 

 even many English names, as the Kieffer and Seckel pears, have 

 several ways of spelling. When a name is drawn from a proper 

 noun, the orthography of such proper noun should be preserved. 

 Yet a name having been misspelled by several authorities and 

 for some length of time should not be changed, fixity being of 

 more importance than correct spelling. 



PEONTrNCiATioN. — Mention should be made also of pronun- 

 ciation in any set of rules. Much confusion now exists in the 

 pronunciaticm' of names especially those given in honor of indi- 



