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as small, medium, large and very large, terms that are indefinite. We 
recommend a system of designating the size by numbers from one to ten, 
starting at two inches in diameter and adding one-fourth of an inch for 
each number. Numbers one, two and three to represent all under medium ; 
four, five, six and seven to represent medium; and eight, nine and ten, 
large; and if any varieties exceed the diameter represented by these num- 
bers, designate them as very large. The plan will be very simple after it 
is once established, but it must represent the full average of the varieties 
" as they grow in this state. The catalogue printed in the transactions for 
; 1890 contains a number of varieties that will not ever again be raised in 
this state. It was published chiefly for future reference and need not be 
re-published oftener than once in ten years, but I believe it best for the 
2 cause of horticulture, that a catalogue of the apples and all other fruits 
4 now and hereafter grown here, should be published in each report and 
a should be revised each year as is done in the Michigan, Illinois and some 
: other state societies, and by the American Pomological Society. 
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In 1883, the American Pomological Society adopted rules for naming and 
exhibiting fruits. With this report I submit a copy of the section relat- 
rs ing to the naming of fruits and recommend its adoption and publication 
in the forthcoming volume of transactions. (See index ‘‘Rules for Nam- 
ing fruits”). I neglected to mention that under the rules governing the 
names by which fruits are known, the American Pomological Society has 
adopted the name of Oldenburg for our leading apple, the Duchess of Old- 
enburg, and as that society is the highest authority in America on these 
: matters, I recommend that hereafter whenever the variety is referred to 
; in our reports orin premium lists, and the catalogues of aurserymen, it be 
designated by the same name ‘‘Oldenburg.” 
