ADDITIOXAl. PAPI-RS. 



The iSccrciarv will here add such jjupcrs of merit as were. f<ir 

 the want of time, referred for piiMiratioii without reading. Two 

 of these are really reports from important standing committees, 

 and all are highly meritorious. 



KErORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NU.MENi LATLKE. 



South Havks, Mich., January o, 1888. 

 To lion. Parker Earle, President of the American Ilorliciilliiral S<>ci>lff : 



The undersigned, chairman of the Committee on Nomencliiture, woiiM respect- 

 fully report that contributions to such report have been received from only two 

 members of the committee. 



Mr. (». 15. Brackett, of Iowa, says: "I most heartily indorse the idea you 

 have heretofore advanced, and urged upon the various horticultural societies, in 

 reference to shortening and correcting the names of the fruits in our catalogues ; 

 anil we should'also endeavor to convey as much information concerning the varieiy 

 as possible, consistently with brevity, in the naming of new fruits, and avoiding 

 all Latin names which may be liable to convey the idea of a distinct species, such, 

 for instance, as Priimis Simoni or P. Pinnardi. 



" There is another point to which I wish to invite attention, and which you 

 can enlarge upon, as it is a source of great confusion in the nomenclature of our 

 fruits, viz. : The introduction of old varieties under new names. This can only 

 be done among a class who are not familiar with fruits; and, perhaps, this is prac- 

 tice<l to a greater extent in our state (Iowa) than in yours (Michigan), for the 

 reas<m that there is a mania for something new since our old varieties began lo 

 fail ; and there is a set of mountebanks who are ready to lake advantage of this 

 ' tiilal wave,' and furnish the eager seeker after 8(uui-thing new with these obi 

 sorts with newly-made names. A case in point was brought to notice at the late 

 meeting of the .American Pomological Society, where it wasstateil that the Lawvcr 

 apple was being disseminated in New Jersey and Delaware under the name of 

 Delaware Winter. Many such instances have occurred in Iowa. This is one of 

 the ways in whiih synonyms are multiplied." 



On December 31, the following was received from T. V. .Munson, of Denis.in, 

 Texas: "I had hoped to .send you something worthy of attention ere this, but 

 after attempting ti> review our fruits, I became so confounded with the matter that 

 I g:»ve up in dts|>air of ever getting our names adopted, even if we ^boul(i succeed 

 in simplifying them. I have, therefore, come to the following conclusions : 



"]. That the revision of the nomenclature of fruits is a special and appropriate 

 work of the ,\merican Pomological Society, which it has so well begun. 



