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not to be outdone in a name, he goes in for all the thing is worth, and perhaps more 

 too. Or he may, in his honest, ignorant simplicity, have found some old variety and 

 renamed it. 



Might not this association take seme action that would in a few years induce the 

 nurserymen to submit their catalogues to a committee on nomenclature, or some other 

 authority, by which the names may be corrected, so that the same fruits may in time 

 have the same names in all places? Of course it will be im])ossible to change the local 

 names, but the annoyance and inconvenience of teaching the people the correct names 

 will be far less than to continue the present custom of every one using such names as 

 may suit his fancy. 



The rules of the American Pomological society regarding the naming of new fruits are 

 quite sufficient, but they lack practical application by the nurserymen of the country. 

 If they were lived up to. there would be great advancement in knowledge, and the con- 

 fusion which now occurs would soon cease. 



I would most sincerely and respectfully urge you as pomologists and as business men 

 to not only take this matter into consideration, but to take steps to apply the ideas 

 which, I presume, we all agree are fraught with good. 



Mr. Gkeen: I know one nurseiy at our place which has adopted this 

 reform of President Wilder. Ellwanger & Barry have carried out that 

 reform in every instance in their catalogue since that day, and it is cer- 

 tainly a great improvement, and it is very desira]:)le that we should all 

 adopt that reform. 



Pres. Sweet: I see we have Mr. Hubbard with us, who is to give us a 

 paper on '' Wintering grape vines." We shall be glad to hear from him. 



Mr. T. S. Hubbard of New York: I have written nothing on this subject; 

 I thought it was not enough of a subject to talk very much on, or requir- 

 ing very much talk, and I think perhaps as good a way to get at any infor- 

 mation that I could give you, would be, for any one to ask questions, if 

 there is anyone desirous of any information in regard to our method and 

 my experience in wintering grape vines. I will give two or three points 

 that I think of importance where grapes are wintered in cellars. First, I 

 think the temperature should be kept at a point a little above the freezing 

 point, as near as you can, say from 35 to 40 degrees, if possible. The 

 cellar should have ventilating flues or chimneys, so that on warm days in 

 the winter you can open the ventilators above, either early in the morning, 

 when the night is colder than the day, or late at night; let the cold air in 

 at the bottom and the warm air will escape through these ventilators; in 

 that way, if you have a warm spell in the winter, of two or three weeks, 

 you can keep your cellar at a moderately low degree of temperature. My 

 experience has been that one trouble in storing grapes in the cellar is, to 

 keep them from starting buds and roots, and in order to guard against this 

 it is necessary that they should not be packed in cellars too compactly, and 

 that they should not be covered entirely with any kind of covering, moss 

 or sand, or anything wet. My first experience was in using sand or earth, 

 thinking that they must be covered entirely, and I practiced it and found 

 that often in the winter they would rot. I then used moss for covering 

 them ; there would be some ventilation between the bundles, but I found 

 that moss sprinkled through them kept them a little too damp and they 

 were apt to start. My practice now is. having them in bundles, to pack 

 them in the cellar, first a layer with the tops toward the wall and the roots 

 toward the inside of the cellar, and another layer with the tops toward the 

 inside of the cellar, and the roots toward the wall, packing them up. laid 

 horizontally, until they reach the top of the cellar, not in large batches, 

 but in divisions jjerhaps three or four feet wide, with partitions of boards 

 or two-inch planks, so as to let in a little air between the divisions, and 



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