12 NOMENCLATURE OF THE APPLE. 
except through formal action by some competent horticultural body, preferably that 
with which he was most closely connected. 
F. The use of such general terms as seedling, hybrid, pippin, Peary beurre, 
rare-ripe, damson, etc., is not admissible. 
G. The use of a possessive noun as a name is not pdiidcaitilla, 
H. The use of a number, either singly or attached to a word, should be considered 
only as a temporary expedient while the variety is undergoing preliminary test. 
I. In applying the various provisions of this rule to an existing varietal name 
which has through long usage become firmly embedded in American pomological 
literature, no change shall be made which will involve loss of identity. 
RULE 3. In the full and formal citation of a variety name, the name 
of the author who first published it shall be given. 
PUBLICATION. 
Rue 4. Publication consists (1) in the distribution of a printed 
description of the variety named, giving the distinguishing characters 
of fruit, tree, etc., or (2) in the publication of a new name for a variety 
which is properly described elsewhere; such publications to be made 
in any book, bulletin, report, trade catalogue or periodical, providing: 
the issue bears the date of its publication and is generally distributed 
among nurserymen, fruit-growers, and horticulturists: or (3) in certain 
cases the general recognition of a name for a propagated variety in a 
community for a number of years shall constitiute publication of that 
name. 
A. In determining the name of a variety to which two or more names have been 
given in the same publication, that which stands first shall have precedence. 
REVISION. 
Rue 5. No properly published variety name shall be changed for 
any reason except conflict with this code, nor shall another variety be 
substituted for that originally described thereunder. 
KEY TO THE ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CITATIONS OF AUTHORS 
AND PUBLICATIONS. 
In order to avoid all undue complications in the initials used, the 
particular page where the name of a variety or its synonym is pub- 
lished by authors or others is not specified in this catalogue. The 
numbers of bulletins, the year in which reports or magazines were 
published, or names of the proprietors of the trade catalogues cited, 
only are given. Thus ‘‘D” indicates that the variety referred to is 
mentioned in Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, second 
revised edition, 1869; ‘‘II1H’90,” in the Transactions of the Illinois 
State Horticultural Society for 1890; ‘‘A’91,” in the Proceedings of 
the American Pomological Society for 1891; ‘* I11B45,” in the Illinois 
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 45; ‘‘ MagofH’38,” in 
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