BESCRIPTION. 9 



There are no established rules as to punctuation aiid even our 

 best pomological writers do not follow a uniform method. 



The following suggestions are in accord with the best prac- 

 tices in punctuating descriptions: The account of each organ 

 or quality should form a separate sentence, unless two organs 

 or qualities be very intimately related, as stalk and cavity, and 

 calyx and basin, in the apple, when the accounts may be united. 

 Adjective terms are separated by commas as in conamon usage. 

 In a long sentence diverse qualities may be separated by a semi- 

 colon or colon as in common usage. 



The following description of the Bartlett Pear, taken from 

 Downing, and omitting the history and qualities of the tree, 

 shows good practice in punctuation: — 



"Fruit of large size; oblong, obtuse pyriform. Surface un- 

 even. Skin very thin and smooth, clear yellow (with a soft 

 blush on the sunny side in exposed specimens), rarely marked 

 with faint russet. Stalk one to one and a haK inches long, 

 stout, inserted in a shallow cavity. Calyx open with segments 

 short, erect, set in a very shallow, obscurely plaited basin. Flesh 

 white, and exceedingly fine-grained and buttery; it is full of 

 juice, sweet, with a highly perfumed vinous flavor. (In damp 

 or unfavorable soils it is sometimes slightly acid.) Ripens 

 from last of August to middle and last of September." 



Citations. — The rule for citations in the Cornell Code of 

 IvTomenclature, published elsewhere, may be repeated here and 

 its use is commended. 



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

 name of the author who first published 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. 



