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Station in Ohio, I am going to introduce this subject and report to 

 our next meeting. I think others should do the same. 



3Ir. Hale, of Connecticut — Most of the experiments we have 

 made have been in places half a mile apart, not in a long row. 



Mr. Peffer, of Wisconsin — If we do anything in this way we 

 must do it thoroughly. We must do it right or we can not depend 

 upon it. The only way to do it successfully is to have each experi- 

 ment separate. You must remove the stamens from a flower if 

 necessary to keep it from fertilizing itself. 



Mr. Webb, of Kentucky — I came 700 miles to attend this meet- 

 ing and I am probably on the way to find out a fact which will 

 more than pay my expenses. I had a row about 300 feet long with 

 two varieties in it. Next to it I had a row of Crescent. I had 

 fruited it before but the berries were not large. I did not know 

 why they were not large till now. They were darker in color, too. 

 I am going to experiment in this direction. 



3Ir. Wellhouse, of Kansas — It is a question with me whether all 

 these results are from cross fertilization. Is it not from the influ- 

 ence of tree upon tree? My attention was called to this by notic- 

 ing in two rows of apple trees, where one variety was influenced by 

 one kind in one place, and another in another, and there was a 

 difference in them. I am satisfied it is not all from fertilization, but 

 from the influence of trees upon each other. 



Mr. Masters, of Nebraska — I have investigated this subject some- 

 what. I commenced investigating with the strawberry. I grew 

 Crescent by Sharpless and thought perhaps I did not have the right 

 berry for the Crescent. I suppose it was cross fertilization that 

 deceived me. There is another thing I have observed. Where I 

 have set apple trees separate from other varieties the fruit was dif- 

 ferent from those set by other varieties. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 



Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, made the following report for the Com- 

 mittee on Nomenclature: 



Your Committee on Nomenclature beg le.nvc to report that we indorse the rec- 

 ommendations made bv Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the American Pom- 

 oiogical Society, as well as those of our President Earle, looking to a simplification 



