174 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



EVENING SESSION. 



The evening meeting was called to order at seven and 

 a-half o'clock, by Mr. Barstow. 



Mr. Gold. Col. Wilder, the venerable President of the 

 American Pomological Society, at the last meeting of that 

 society, presented in his address the importance of a revised 

 system of nomenclature of American fruits. The confusion 

 that has arisen, and the discredit that some varieties labor 

 under from the absurd names by which they are designated 

 is such that he thought it worth while to make it a particular 

 point in his address, and that subject was taken up by the 

 convention. Committees were appointed, and resolutions 

 prepared, which were adopted by that convention, recom- 

 mending a uniform style of nomenclature, and the rejection 

 of synonyms. They recommended rules for the exhibition 

 of fruit before that association, and exhibitions generally. 



In answer to that appeal from Col. Wilder, that Association 

 has published a circular containing those recommendations, 

 and an extract from that address, copies of which h&,ve been 

 sent to associations like ours and kindred societies throughout 

 the country, with a request that we would take such action as 

 we deem expedient towards endorsing that movement. 



It is desirable that we should take some action in accord- 

 ance with the request of this honorable Society, and in support 

 of its venerable president on this subject, and I here present 

 the circular. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



At the recent meeting of the American Pomological Society 

 held in Philadelphia, Mr. J. B. Rogers of New Jersey, made the 

 following motion, which was unamimously adopted: "That the 

 Secretary of this Society be instructed, at an early day, to send 

 copies of our rules and the portion of the President's address 

 referring to the names of fruits, to all kindred societies in 

 America." 



W. J. Beal, Secretary, Marshall P. Wilder, President, 



Lansing, Mich. Boston, Mass. 



