his a permanent committee, if possible.
That was the reason for putting that word in there, but if it is an
abridgment of the constitution, we don't want to do it, of course.

MR. KINTZEL: I'd like to know what the rules of nomenclature of the
American Pomological Society are.

DR. MACDANIEL: The rules cover about two pages. I can give you the gist
of it, I think. One provision is that the discoverer or introducer of a
new variety has the privilege of selecting a name for it. Another rule
is that it shall not duplicate a name given previously for a variety of
the same class of fruit or nut. The name should preferably be one word
or, at most, two words, without hyphens, without possessives. That a nut
not be named for a person without his permission during his lifetime.
That covers the meat of it.

MR. CHASE: Such a committee would give official status and recognition
to your discovery. I believe it would prevent, on a large scale, such
things as this Morning Star hardy English walnut. In other words, we'd
have a committee to examine a nut sample from your tree, anybody's tree,
pass on it and see that the name that you select meets the requirements
of this American Pomological Society's rules of nomenclature, which are
quite reasonable. I think it is an excellent step that we should take at
this time.

MR. CALDWELL: Mr. President. The variety we are using is not a variety,
it's a clone. Maybe we had better get together with taxonomists and
botanists. That's all they are, selections, they are not varieties, in
the botanical sense, even though the term has been badly misused by the
nut growers. I don't see why we should continue with mis-application of
a term just because somebody set up rules for application of names.

DR. CRANE: Mr. President, I want to get this straight. This Association
is talking about horticultural varieties, not botanical varieties. A
correct term for a horticultural variety is a clone.

The American Pomological Society is over a hundred years old, and they
have followed all types of experiences and usages, and they are up to
date, and we can't follow any better pattern than what the American
Pomological Society has done all down through the years. The Northern
Nut Growers Association would be the laughing stock of the world who are
in the know if they don't adopt the rules of nomenclature as set forth
by the American Pomological Society.

MR. SLATE: Mr. President, we already have a committee