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When you walk between the rows the air is full of them. They are not 

 much larger than the head of a pin, and the result of their work is that 

 they curl up the leaves and stop the growth, and we have found it much 

 more destructive than the skeleton worm or leaf roller, or all other 

 nuisances, and cannot find anything to destroy it. 



Mr. Albaugh: This spraying wnth insecticides kills every insect that is 

 upon your trees that eats the foliage. 



Pres. Sweet: I think it would be well if the Hon. H. E. Van Denian, 

 U. S. pomologist, would give us the talk that he is down for. It is a little 

 out of order, but it will probably cover this point, also. 



Mr. Van Deman of Washington: In regard to the question which is 

 just now proposed, I am free to say that I really can not say, as I do not 

 pretend to make entomology a special part of my work. It is my opinion 

 that any insect that eats the foliage can be destroyed by any of these 

 arsenical compounds. I am not certain whether this thrip belongs to that 

 class which suck the sap, or to those which eat the blade of the leaf. I am 

 not able to give any positive information on that sul)ject, but if the society 

 desires to hear the few words I have to say on the subject of the 

 nomenclature of our fruits, I will present you the following: 



REFORM IN names FOE FRUITS. 



It has now been six years since our beloved and lamented Wilder delivered himself, 

 before the American Pomological society, of the reformatory ideas regarding the 

 nomenclature of our fruits, which have been seconded and echoed by all sensible and 

 progressive pomologists. Nearly all the rural papers have copied what he and others 

 have said on the subject. The committees on nomenclature of the American Pomo- 

 logical and American Horticultural societies have officially reported in favor of meas- 

 ures looking to the practical application of the new ideas, and so have some of the state 

 horticultural societies, and the former society has prepared and adopted a revised list of 

 the leading fruits of our country. This revision has been made with the most sacrificing 

 care and by the best pomologists of the day. It has been the idea to shorten, simplify, 

 eliminate, and put into as plain English as possible, the conglomeration of names that 

 have been dug out of all the nations of the earth. The task has been far from a light 

 one, and especially with the Russian list, and I am sorry to say- it does seem in a great 

 measure to have been a thankless one. I hope that the future will prove that this is a 

 mistaken view, and that the day will soon come when the association which I have the 

 honor and great pleasure to now address will be the active agent for carrying into effect 

 what the other societies and private individuals have so well planned and begun. 



The members of this association have it in their power, above all men, to carry out 

 this needed reform. But have you done so? Have you ever made the attempt? Why 

 has not the association taken official action to establish uniformity of names for our 

 fruits? Certainly such a course would be most happy and profitable in its results. The 

 nurseryman is the educator of the public as to the names applied to the fruits grown. 

 Even the most ignorant tree-peddler is taken every day by some one as authority 

 in this matter, and how important that the lists put into his hands should be both 

 uniform and correct. But how few nurserymen have made practical application of the 

 rules that as members of one or more of the pomological or horticultural societies they 

 may have helped to make or indorse. A careful examination of nursery catalogues 

 show's an array of synonyms that is truly discouraging. We find the Ben Davis apple 

 called New York Pippin in some of the eastern states, and Kentucky Red in the south; 

 we have Gilpin called Carthouse, Romanite, Little Romanite, and Little Red Romanite, 

 according to previous knowledge, or, it may be, the fancy of the nurseryman. Some 

 still hold to the old, useless, and long ago discarded appendage, " Pippin," which was 

 first attached to Grimes Golden. The much simpler and equally intelligible name 

 Westfield is often seen with the " Seek-no-further " attachment. Angouleme pear has 

 its old prefix and suffix both carefully preserved. Cumberland strawberry has its 

 " Triumph," and Woodruff and Wyoming grapes have their '* Red " superfluities. The 

 crop of swelling " Wonderf uls " and overloaded " Prolifics " seems to be still growing. 



It is easy to see how all this confusion and useless bombast is originated and prop- 

 agated. Some nurseryman originates or purchases the stock of some new thing; and 



