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Prof. L. R. Taft offered the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted: 



Whereas, The American Pomological society has, since its organization, been 

 engaged in the onerous task of bringing order out of the confusion so long existing in 

 the nomenclature and general literature of our pomology, a work necessarily limited by 

 the fact of its volunteer and periodical character; and 



Whereas, The national government has, through its department of agriculture, 

 devised a division of pomology to meet the increasing modern requirement of this 

 branch of our national interest, in its more modern commercial phase, which division 

 has adopted the " Rules of Pomology " of said society as the basis of its action; and 



Whereas, Under these circumstances it is clearly of the utmost importance that the 

 action of the two be in entire harmony; therefore 



Resolved, That the Michigan State Horticultural society view with great satisfaction 

 the proposal to devise a plan to insure such concerted action between the two, looking 

 to the purifying of our present pomological nomenclature, the elimination therefrom, 

 so far as practicable, of the crudities as well as the worthless matter which now 

 cumbers its literature and its catalogues. 



Resolved, That this society further commends the effort to devise a plan through 

 which to secure the suppression of the modern practice of practicing upon the credulity 

 of the public, for individual profit, by the introduction of novelties of questionable 

 value, and by the re-introduction of the old varieties under new names. 



