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MEETING OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON RUSSIAN APPLE 
NOMENCLATURE. 
(Held at La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 30, 1898.) 
PROF. N. E. HANSEN, BROOKINGS, S. D. 
The Russian apple nomenclature commission, which convened 
here Wednesday,was able to complete its task more quickly than ex- 
pected. Much preliminary work had been done, and the careful study 
necessary to this on the part of each member led to a gratifying 
unanimity of opinion, so that very few questions remained to be 
settled in committee. 
Wisconsin was represented on this commission ky Professor E. S. 
Goff, of the University of Wisconsin; A. J. Philips, of Wisconsin, 
secretary of the State Horticultural Society,and by A. G. Tuttle, of 
Baraboo. 
Minnesota’s members were Clarence Wedge, of Albert Lea, the 
president of the commission; Professor S. B. Green, of the Univer- 
sity of Minnesota, and J. S. Harris, of La Crescent. 
Iowa’s members were Mr. J. Sexton, of the Agricultural College, at 
Ames; C. G. Patten, of Charles City, and J. B. Mitchell, of Cresco; all 
practical and experienced men. 
South Dakota was represented by Photeacse N. EB. Hansen, of the 
Agricultural College, at Brookings. 
Among the great number of Russian apples are found well defined 
groups or families. By this is meant that some varieties so closely 
resemble each other as to benearly or quiteidentical. Slight differ- 
ences may be apparent in season, quality, size and appearance of 
fruit, and in habit and other characteristics of tree, but for all prac- 
tical purposes they are too nearly the same to warrant more than 
one representative of the group being put into general cultivation. 
This cutting down of the list will greatly simplify matters pomolog- 
ical, and the need of it has been long felt. 
The following resolution was adopted asa preamble to the groups 
or families of apples brought under consideration: 
‘‘The varieties here grouped as members of the same families 
while ina few cases different somewhat in characteristics of tree 
are so nearly identical in fruit that for exhibition and commercial 
purposes they are practically the same and should be so consid- 
ered.” 
In the following lists the word “spurious” indicates that the name 
preceding it properly belongs to another variety with which it has 
been mixed. 
THE HIBERNAL GROUP. 
Hibernal, No. 378; Lieby, or Recumbent, 240; Yellow Arcadian, 327; 
Juicy Burr, 544 (spurious); Romenskoe, 599 (spurious); Silken Leaf, 
75 M; Recumbent, 41 M; Zuzoff (spurious); Pendent Ear; Omensk 
(spurious); Romna (spurious); Ostrakoff, United States Department, 
(spurious). 
DUCHESS GROUP. 
Duchess of Oldenburg; Oldenburg: Arabian, 184; Borovinka, 245; 
White Krim; Anisette, 185; Glass Green. 
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