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regard to it; and I desire once more to enforce these opinions on 

 a subject which I deem of imperative importance. Our Society 

 has been foremost in the field of reform in this work, but there is 

 much yet to be done. We should have a system of rules con- 

 sistent with our science, regulated by common sense, and which 

 shall avoid ostentatious, indecorous, inappropriate, and superfluous 

 names. Such a code your Committee have in hand, and I com- 

 mend its adoption. Let us have no more Generals, Colonels, or 

 Captains attached to the names of our fruits; no more Presidents, 

 Governors, or titled dignitaries; no more Monarchs, Kings, .or 

 Princes; no more Mammoths, Giants, or Tom Thumbs; no more 

 Nonesuches, Seek-no-furthers, Ne plus ultras, Hog-pens, Sheep- 

 noses, Big Bobs, Iron Clads, Legal Tenders, Sucker States, or 

 Stump the World. Let us have no more long, unpronounceable, 

 irrelevant, high-flown, bombastic names to our fruits, and, if 

 possible, let us dispense with the now confused terms of Belle, 

 Beurre, Calebasse, Doyenne, Pearmain, Pippin, Seedling, Beauty, 

 Favorite, and other like useless and improper titles to our fruits. 

 The cases are very few where a single word will not form a better 

 name for a fruit than two or more. Thus shall we establish a 

 standard worthy of imitation by other nations, and I suggest that 

 we ask the co-operation of all pomological and horticultural 

 societies, in this and foreign countries, in carrying out this 

 important reform. 



As the first great national Pomological Society in origin, the 

 representative of the most extensive and promising territory for 

 fruit culture, of which we have any knowledge, it became our duty 

 to lead in this good work. Let us continue it, and give to the 

 world a system of nomenclature for our fruits which shall be 

 worthy of the Society and the country, — a system pure and plain 

 in its diction, pertinent and proper in its application, and which 

 shall be an example, not only for fruits, but for other products of 

 the earth, and save our Society and the nation from the disgrace 

 of unmeaning, pretentious, and nonsensical names, to the most 

 perfect, useful, and beautiful productions of the soil the world 

 has ever known. 



Mr. Rogers. A committee was appointed by the American 

 Pomological Society, at their meeting at Philadelphia, to re- 

 vise their rules concerning the nomenclature of the fruits. 



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