164 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
NOMENCLATURE AND CATALOGUE. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE AND CATA- 
LOGUE. 
BY J. S. HARRIS. 
Mr. President and Members of State Horticultural Society: 
The committee on nomenclature has not held any formal meeting dur- 
ing the year. At the summer meeting of the society I looked over the 
exhibit of small fruits before they were passed upon by the awarding com- 
mittee and found all correctly named with the exception of two varieties 
of raspberries in one collection, and the proper corrections were made. At 
the state fair I found a large exhibit of apples and a fair one of native 
plums, and also a great deal of confusion in the names. I made a pretty 
careful examination of the whole exhibit, and as far as able made correc- 
tions. I am very certain that several varieties of the Russians were not 
true to the names, in the lists of Prof. Budd, of varieties forwarded from 
Moscow, and described by Dr. Shroeder, of the agricultural college near 
Moscow, Russia. But taking into account that I am not yet familiar 
enough with the fruits of that country to be an expert, and that the de- 
scriptions made in that country might vary considerably from the appear- 
ance of the fruit as grown in Minnesota; I have not, except where very 
positive that they were incorrect, interfered with the names under which 
they were exhibited. As the varieties of fruit exhibited at the fairs and 
our meetings increases, it is becoming necessary that the committee on 
nomenclature give them more attention,and especially so asa great many 
of the trees are designated by numbers, and the planters have no means 
for finding out the corresponding names, and have since taken the name 
from some tree agent, whohad even less knowledge of them. We found 
the most confusion in the large and elegant sweepstakes collection shown 
by Mr. R. C. Keel, of Rochester. The committee exonorate him from all 
blame in the matter. He purchased his orchard from E. B. Jordan. A 
considerable portion of the orchard had been topgrafted to Russians and 
seedlings, and frequently with more than one variety in a tree. Numbers 
of the varieties perished, and no one is competent to set them right with- 
out making a very thorough investigation. In justice to Mr. Keel, he 
should have such assistance in the matter from this society as it is in eur 
power to give. 
In the matter of native plums many new varieties having points of ex- 
cellence are finding their way toour exhibitions, and the time has arrived 
when appropriate names should be given to suchas have them not already, 
and they should be described and catalogued. 
In the matter of catalogue your committee have no additions to make 
at this time. In the catalogues the size of fruit is generally designated 
