ANNUAL MEETING. 191 



SECOND DAY. 



The Board met at ten o'clock a. m., Mr. Grinnell in the 

 chair. 



Present: Messrs. Barrus, Bird, Bovvditch, Bowen, Buell, 

 Buddington, Davis, Damon, Edson, Goddard, Grinnell, 

 Hadvven, Haskell, Hartshorn, Hersey, Hill, Lane, Lynde, 

 McKinstry, Moore, Nye, Noble, Round, Slade, Smith, Var- 

 num. Ware, Warner, Waterman, Wheeler and Wilder. 



Messrs. Warner, Damon and Buddington were appointed 

 a Committee upon the Assignment of Delegates to the Fairs. 



Messrs. Slade, Smith, Bowditch, Hartshorn and Noble 

 were appointed a Committee upon the time and place for 

 holding the Country Meeting. 



Messrs. Wheeler, Nye and Edson were appointed a Com- 

 mittee upon the Changes of Times for holding the Fairs. 



The business assigned for the morning hour, the proper 

 nomenclature of fruits, was then presented by Mr. Wilder, 

 President of the American Pomological Society, and by his 

 request the following extract from his annual address before 

 that society was read by the Secretary : — 



" In former addresses, I have spoken to 5'ou of the importance 

 of the establishment of short, plain and proper rules to govern 

 the nomenclature and description of our fruits, and of our duty in 

 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 sjstem of rules consistent with 

 our science, regulated b}' common sense, and which shall avoid 

 ostentatious, indecorous, inappropriate and superfluous names. 

 Such a code your Committee have in hand, and I commend 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-fur thers, 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, 



