96 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, 



The Cranberry Crop. — More than a million bushels 

 of cranberries are annuall_y sent to American markets. 



Rose Varieties. — According to 7'he Gardening- Worlds 

 6,400 different varieties of roses have been produced by 

 florists up to the present and new ones are still being off- 

 ered at the rate ol nearly a hundred a \'ear. 



Hooibreuk Fruit Culture. — ^The Hooibreuk s^^stem 

 of fruit culture is so named from its discoverer, an ignor- 

 ant peasant on the Danube. He is said to have ascer- 

 tained that branches trained below the horizontal produce 

 flowers and fruit in unusual quantity. French papershave 

 recently asserted that in this position the branches act as 

 siphons drawing an increase flow ol sap downward re- 

 sulting in greater productiveness. At this rate it will not 

 be long before science will countenance the practice of the 

 old farmer who hung weights to all the branches of his 

 fruit trees upon the theory thtit the most heavily fruited 

 Ijranches alwaj'S hung farthest downward. 



Nomenclature Not Settled. — There are those who 

 will tell 3^ou that the nomenclature ' question has been 

 settled for all time, but how far this is from the truth may 

 be judged from the fact that an international botanical 

 compress will meet in Vienna in 1905 for the consideration 

 of this very subject. At present there are three centers in 

 which three different ideals of nomenclature prevail. The 

 first includes the botanists of continental Europe, who 

 hold varying ideas of the subject but seem willing to get 

 together; the second includes British botanists who, with 

 the usual British conservatism, hold to the nomenclature 

 used at Kew and cannot understand why all the rest of 

 the world do not subscribe to it; and the third consists of 

 the radical Americans who insist that we must make a 

 nomenclature of our own without regard to the others. 

 Dr. Otto Kuntze has recently stated that the application 

 of the so-called Rochester Code to the botany of the world 

 would necessitate the changing of nearl}^ thirty thousand 

 names, and in view of this fact, the American idea is not 

 likely to gain much headway. The charge that can be 



