196 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Tdlman Sweet as Golden Eusset and so on, several others after the same 

 style. Doubtless, there was no intention of wrong in this, they have at 

 sometime planted trees under those names and are generally glad to 

 be set right. 



Many people who are not familiar with fruits take advantage of the 

 opportunities afforded at the fairs to make out lists of varieties for 

 the next spring's planting, and to them it is doubly important that all 

 good varieties should be shown under their correct names, for the reason 

 that the nurseryman with whom they place the order will be more than 

 likely to fill with just the varieties called for, and if they live to bear 

 fruit other disapointments have come and an honest nurseryman is 

 blamed for them. 



In view of the above reasons and many others that your time will 

 not permit us to discuss, we recommend that hereafter every variety 

 and species of fruit that comes before the society for recommendation 

 for trial or general cultivation in any section of this state, shall be 

 catalogued and plainly described under its true name, or, if an unnamed 

 seedling, that it shall be named according to the rules of the American 

 Pomological Society. Also, that all other varieties now being or having 

 been grown in this state, including all of the Russian varieties as fast as 

 the true name can be ascertained, and all new seedlings hereafter pro- 

 duced that give any promise of value shall be catalogued and described; 

 giving name and P. O. address of the originator, wherever known, giving 

 size, form, color, and season of the fruit, the uses and value of the fruit 

 for dessert, cooking and market, and the comparative hardiness of the 

 tree, taking the Oldenburg as the highest standard, using numbers as 

 far as practicable from one to ten, ten to denote perfection; as a means for 

 education and protection in the future. 



The observations of the past season have confirmed us in the opinion 

 that there area number of varieties of the newer Russians that are des- 

 tined to play a conspicuous part in the future pomology of the North- 

 west.and that no time should be wasted before sifting out the best and most 

 valuable sorts and ascertaining their correct names. If there are not a 

 half-dozen varieties made out of the Oldenburg, there are that number 

 going by different names that are so nearly alike in tree, quality of fruit 

 and season, that no one planter will want more than one, or at most two 

 of them. We would suggest saving the best two that differ the most and 

 discarding the remainder, or throwing them all into one batch and having 

 them known only by the name Oldenburg. The man who wants only six 

 will then be protected from planting thirty more of the same kind under 

 other names. The same is also true of some others of them. The Hibernal, 

 Lieby, Recumbent and Ostrekoff Glass are so nearly identical, if not posi- 

 tively one variety, that only one of them should be retained. 



A slight mistake was made in printing the form of scale for determin- 

 ing the size of apples by numbers, presented with our last report, the 

 square. No. 1, being one-fourth of an inch too large. No. 1 should be 

 exactly two inches square and the outside line of each additional number, 

 one-fourth of an inch larger. This scale is being received with favor and 

 we recommend that it appear as corrected in the forthcoming volume of 

 transactions. We also submit for your approval a form of catalogue. 



