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NOMENCLATURE AND CATALOGUE. 



J. S, HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 



Your committee find that some g-ood is resulting- from the publi- 

 cation of annual reports on "Nomenclature and Catalogue." There 

 were not nearly as many varieties wrongly named at the fairs of 

 1895 as there had been at the fairs of previous years; both planters 

 and exhibitors are taking more interest in pointing out the correct 

 names of the fruits they grow and take considerable pains to com- 

 pare their fruit with that of other exhibitors and growers. But there 

 is still need of maintaining such a committee and will be as long as 

 any of our tree planters and fruit growers are not well posted in 

 varieties and trees continue to be sold by incompetent agents or 

 propagated by careless nurserj^men: and, as new varieties will con- 

 tinually be brought forward, the naming and describing of them 

 will be a necessitj'. We are still unable to get some of the new- 

 Russian varieties out from the fog that overshadows them and get 

 them under their correct names, largely from the trees having been 

 procured by numbers, which are much sooner forgotten than even 

 the to us outlandish and jaw-breaking names by which they are 

 known in their own country. 



The past year was not favorable for describing and adding many 

 of the new Russians to the list in our catalogue. At the fairs more 

 of the Walbridge and Utter were shown under wrong- names or as 

 unknown than any other varieties. I attribute this in the case of the 

 Walbridge to the fact that about sixteen years since it was enjoying- 

 a boom and was being propagated extensively by that class of 

 nurserymen who are bound to sell anyway, and their agents have 

 unloaded their trees upon unsuspecting farmers under names that 

 take best. 



We gave in 1895 some installments of the report in the magazines 

 of September, October and November, believing it would be 

 more seasonable, besides making the annual report less lengthy. 

 To get them on record for future reference, we here present a few 

 descriptions and would have been glad to give more had we 

 data to go by so that they might not hereafter get confused. We 

 will here suggest that it would greatly facilitate the work of your 

 committee if every person who furnishes us samples for examina- 

 tion or places seedlings on exhibition at fairs would label them 

 with some name, number or letter with their own name and post- 

 office address, and let them only be known by that name, number or 

 letter until they are rightly disposed of by the action of this society 

 or properly named and recorded. 



Lyman's Prolific. — Siberian hybrid; size large (2 to 3); form round- 

 ish, slightly conic; color greenish - yellow ground, striped and 

 splashed with red; stem long and slender in a medium narrow cav- 

 ity; calyx closed; basin medium, much wrinkled; flesh yellow, 

 nearly fine; flavor mild acid, slightly acrid; core small, closed; 

 quality fair, best for cooking; tree, hardy and very heavy fruiter. 

 Originated by H. M. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 



