HOW MINN. SEEDLINGS CAME THROUGH THE WINTER. 141 
climate, the time is not very far distant when the best apple known to 
civilized man will be knocking at the door of our treasury for the $1,000 
premium we are offering. I have seen numbers of seedlings, that have not 
yet fruited, that were not in the least injured by the severity of the 
winter. 
NOMENCLTURE AND CATALOGUE, ANNUAL REPORT 
OF 1899. 
J. S. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN, LA CRESCENT. 
The committee on nomenclature and catalogue spent considerable time 
at the late state fair in looking over the exhibits that were set up in com- 
petition for premiums and found a considerable number of varieties that 
were not correctly named, usually crossing out the name under which they 
were set up and writing the true name, where known to us, underneath or 
upon a separate card. 
In collections we found Anisim labeled Zuzoff; Duchess of Oldenburg 
named Borovinka; Charlamoff, Anisette; Autumn Streak, and several other 
misnomers; Hibernal as Leiby; Recumbent, Juicy Burr, Silken Leaf, etc.; 
one unknown variety as Christmas; an unknown as White Pigeon, and as 
Giant Swaar;one as Plumb’s Cider,one as Roxbury Russett, one as Tallman 
Sweet; one Wealthy as Walbridge; one Patten’s Greening as Northwestern 
Greening; one Scott’s Winter as Elgin Beauty and a dozen or more of the 
Russian Striped Anis under a great variety of names. Several collections 
were not corrected, principally those competing for sweepstakes. 
In entries of single plates we found one Duchess as Charlamoff, one 
Wealthy as Haas, one Wealthy as Walbridge, one Wealthy as Ostrekoff, 
one Wealthy as Peerless, two Antonovka as Ostrekoff, one unknown. as 
Kaump, one unknown as Lubsk Queen, one Virginia crab as Tonka, one 
Ben Davis as Fameuse, one unknown as Christmas, one unknown as Gil- 
bert, one Anisim as Christmas. 
There is a marked decrease in the varieties wrongly named over those 
of previous years, and we found more erroneous names in the exhibits by 
professionals than in those by amateurs. It seems probable that some of the 
exhibitors were not familiar with or not disposed to accept the action of 
the inter-state committee on Russian nomenclature, that met at La Crosse 
in 1808, by which all varieties of specific families should only be known and 
exhibited under one name. We think that the classification made by that 
committee should be binding on both judges and exhibitors. It is bewild- 
ering, if not unjust, to have so many names for one variety, or varieties so 
near identical that no expert can distinguish them, and it gives shrewd and 
unscrupulous exhibitors of unlimited collections a great advantage over 
those who are not well up in names. There were a number of new names 
in the premium list for single plates that are unknown to pomologists, and 
we were unable to determirie whether they were filled with the variety called 
for or not, although there were entries made for each name, and in some 
instances two. or more filled with different varieties. It is our opinion that 
varieties should not be placed upon the premium lists for competition 
until their name has been accepted and adopted by our own or some other 
state horticultural society, or by the American Pomological Society, and a 
description of them has been published in our annual report or in the 
catalogue of the American Pomological Society. There were a number of 
