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ing their several orcliards. Their tree venders often sold the 

 same variety under different names, and others were incorrectly 

 named. How very incorrectly bundles of trees are, or may 

 chance to be named by nurserymen, the reader will infer from 

 the following, among other similar facts, which fell under the 

 eye of the writer, while in the discharge of his duty as a mem- 

 ber of a premium awarding committee at our State Fair two 

 years ago. In the collection of one of our oldest nurserymen, 

 the Pennock apple occupied six plates, under as many names, 

 neither of which was the true name of that coarse and almost 

 worthless variety. 



Nurserymen who misname varieties which they have on exhi- 

 bition, will, and without doubt, do mistake the trees they sell to 

 customers. No blame can properly attach to cultivators for con- 

 tinuing such wrong names in their collections, until they have 

 been once corrected by a competent committee. After that the 

 wrong name should not be sufl'ered to reappear. We regret 

 having to say that such has not been the happy result of their 

 labors in our State, except in a few instances. 



If cultivators refuse to remain enlightened, prefenng to " re- 

 turn into Egypt," ought committees to award premiums on such 

 collections, under the wholesome restrictions, " named and label- 

 ed?" We think they ought not to be thus publicly encouraged 

 to stercofype their errors in their respective localities, as they do 

 in the ca semination of scions, wrongly named, among their 

 neighbors. C'le object of these premiums is, or should be, to 

 spread abroad a c rrect pomological knowledge. Visitors and 

 members expend their time and money for that worthy end. 

 Should they not be gratified ? We think they have a right to 

 be enlightened : that it is a part of the consideration with many, 

 and a matter of interest with nearly all. 



The collections were almost all from the southeastern part of 

 the state ; from the counties of Rock, Walworth, Racine, Keno- 

 sha, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson and Dane. 



Our notes were taken in the following order . commencing at 

 the left of the entrance and passing around the tables to the 

 light, to the starting point. If any collections were missed, we 



