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NOMENCLATUE AND CATALOGUE. . 275 
NOMENCLATUE AND CATALOGUE. 
J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT, COMMITTEE. 
Your committes have not found as much work to be done in the 
past year as in some years before, Occasional specimens have been 
sent to us for identification by individuals, and the true name when 
known has been given to them direct, instead of making it a matter 
of report to this society. Very frequently the name has been widely 
different from that by which the trees were originally purchased 
of nurserymen oragents. At the late state fair we found occasion 
to make corrections in a few of the exhibits but rarely among the 
leading varieties and have kept no record of them. We are pleased 
to note that there is much less confusion among the names of Amer- 
ican varieties than there was a few years since, but acknowledge 
that we are making but slow progress in arriving at the correct 
nomenclature of many of the new Russians and are of the belief 
that a number of the names under which they have been sent out 
are only synonyms. If not different members of families or types, 
many of them are so nearly alike in tree and fruit that we think it 
will be best to recognize only two or three of the best of each type 
as the Oldenburgs, Hibernals and Transparents. 
We suggest that Greening be dropped from the Patten’s Greening 
and that it hereafter be known as ‘‘Patten,’ and also that in other 
cases where secondary words are used that are not necessary to in- 
sure identity they be eliminated. We further recommend that when- 
ever a seedling variety is awarded a first or second premium either 
as a fall or winter apple ora Siberian hybrid, it shall be givena suit- 
able name and described as accurately as possible and its history, 
place of origin and originator’s address, together with the name of 
the variety from which it sprang, if known, be placed on record. 
And we further suggest that all parties that have seedlings of 
promise of value for hardiness of trees, productiveness or superior 
quality of fruit be requested to furnish the committee on nomen- 
clature or seedling fruits with samples of the same for the purpose 
of haviny descriptions made, together with history of the tree, to 
be preserved for future use. 
The last full catalogue of such varieties as are usually shown at 
our fairs or are grown in some portions of the state or are offered 
for sale by agents and nurserymen, was published in the Report for 
1893. We think that the catalogue should be revised, corrected, a few 
more varieties added to it, and be published again in the near future. 
This might be done by a committee and then submitted to the so- 
ciety for adoption. Its publication would use about ten pages of 
ourreport. The catalogue of fruits recommended for cultivation 
in the various sections of the United States by the American Pomo- 
logical Society, has recently been published in a bulletin by the 
United States Department of Agriculture, and is very valuable for 
reference. Your committee furnished the starring (*) for the state 
(10th district ), but as the district includes Wisconsin west of 89th 
meridian and Iowa north of latitude 42 and Minnesota, some varie- 
ties not grown here havea star. Among them are the Baltimore, 
Hightop Sweet, Jewett’s Red, Kirkbridge, Northwestern Greening, 
Pewaukee, Twenty-Ounce, Wagner and Windsor, and several of the 
others are grown only in the most favored localities. The plan of 
the catalogue is excellent, and a good one for individual states or 
societies to follow. We further advise the making of a map of the 
state and division into districts and starring the catalogue by dis- 
tricts. 
