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amongst the other stocks any that are small or unbiulded and not required 

 for grafting over. Heel them in, trim, and plant out in freshly- prepared 

 soil. Apply artificial manure when planting. 



It is not a wise plan to re-bud stocks the following summer when grow- 

 ing amongst yearling trees, as the roots of the budded stocks get cut and 

 bruised when lifting the young trees for planting out in tht^ winter. Be- 

 sides, the conditions for making growth are not the same. In order to 

 get the best results the above advice should be closely followed. 



(J'o be coutiiiUid.) 



THE NOMENCLATURE OF FRUIT. 



E. E. Pcscott, Principal. FJorticultural School, Burnley. 



Introduction. 



In the science of Horticulture, no .section provides .^u iniertsting, so 

 entertaining, and .so instructive a study, as the study of Pomology. It 

 affords an immense scope for thought, and is in itself a life-study- \Mien 

 one considers all the kinds of fruit, and all the varieties — both multiplying 

 with the increasing years — there looms up at once the thought that here 

 is a section, a science in itself ., so varied, .so full of change, with so much 

 room for observation, that he is at first reluctant to enter upon this study. 

 Immediately, the interesting side of the work appeals, and gradually one 

 is led into working up a most entrancing and instructive .science. 



Of varieties of apples alone, the total number extends into thousands, 

 and the number is increasing each year. It will thus be seen that a student 

 of Pomology is undertaking no light task when he enters upon the work. 

 The sub-section of Fruit Nomenclature, too, gives ample room for thought 

 — whv fruits are so named, who grew and named them, what the names 

 mean, why thev have so manv svnonyms ; these and other questions crowd 

 thick and fast upon one. 



Fruit X.ames. 



It is quite right tiiat each variety of fruit should have a name, and it is 

 only natural that the man who rai.ses a new kind should have the privilege 

 of naming it; but it is just here that trouble is likely lo ensuf. and .serious 

 trouble. A man in an (iiiscure country district raises a new fruit — either 

 by a chance seedling, bv cross-fertilization, or |)erhai)s he comes across a 

 good bud variation or sport. He fiixls liis result to l)e good; he gives 

 .scions to his neighbours ; or. may be. he sells the whole stock to a nurserv- 

 man for commercial usages. Then the new fruit is given a name. Probably, 

 neither the raiser nor the nurscrvman knows but little of pomology, and 

 as a result the fruit is given a name which is already in use. Then, in a 

 few years, confusion, and irritating confusion too, arises. This has really 

 cx:curred ; and not only in fruit, liut also in flower nomenclature. A per- 

 manent committee, with power to revise names, would iirevent all this. 



Again, a nurseryman may go in for r.iising new varieties as a si-)eci.ilty ; 

 but, unfortunately, his ambition is to prefix or to sulTix each variety with his 

 own surname, and hi* gives t.. ih.- w.ulil perliaps twenty or tliiriv varietie< 



