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a seedling, or if unknown, to mark it as such ; so that the judges 
could also act as a committee on nomenclature, to insert, correct, 
or reduce all local and improper names to a common standard. 
This is an important work, and can only be done by a national 
society, such as the American Pomological. 
Another work of perhaps equal importance rests also with that 
society which has as yet not been attempted. It is the maping 
out of a fruit chart of our country, showing by isothermal lines to 
what limits the various kinds of fruits can be successfully grown, 
for instance apples, peaches, pears and plums that are grown near 
St. Catharines, Canada, cannot be grown as far north as central 
Iowa, and peaches that are produced in abundance near the eastern 
shore of Lake Michigan cannot be grown with any degree of 
certainty for more than a hundred miles south; away from the in- 
fluence of large bodies of water, and in going south, certain fruits 
disappear while others take their place. The value of such a chart 
can be seen at aglance. It would not only serve as a guide to the 
fruit grower, but the country could be divided into fruit zones cor- 
responding to the areas occupied by the different fruits, and the 
fruits of each district placed side by side at our national exhibi- 
tions to be judged in competition only within the district to which 
it belonged. 
In making up this report your delegates expected to avail them- 
selves of the special report of the judges (which is part of the 
awards to which we are entitled) and which the Director-General 
assured us would be printed in pamphlet form and a copy furnished, 
but which we have not, as yet, been able to obtain. 
The only document which we have received is the following 
notice of award : 
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. (No. 235.) 
PHILADELPHIA, 1876. 
\ 
The United States Centennial Commission has examined the report of the 
Judges, and accepted the following reasons, and decreed an award in con- 
formity therewith. \ 
PHILADELPHIA, February 14th, 1877. 
REPORT ON AWARDS. 
Product: One hundred and nineteen varieties of apples. Name and address 
of Exhibitor: Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Minnesota. 
The undersigned, having examined the product herein described, respect- 
fully recommends the same to the United States Centennial Commission for 
award, for the following reasons, viz.: Fora large and valuable collection 
representing the pomology of the extreme North, including twenty-four 
