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ostentatious, indecorous, inappropriate, and superfluous names. 

 Such a code your committee have in hand, and I commend its 

 adoption. Let us have no more generals, colonels, or captains at- 

 tached to the names of our fruits ; no more presidents, governors, 

 or titled dignitaries ; no more monarchs, kings, or princes ; no 

 more mammoths, giants, or Tom Thumbs; no more nonsuches, 

 seek-no-furthers, ne plus ultras, hog-pens, sheep-noses, big bobs, 

 iron clads, legal tenders, sucker states, or stump-the- worlds. , Let us 

 have no more long, unpronounceable, irrelevant, high flown, bom- 

 bastic names to our fruits, and, if possible, let us dispense with the 

 now confused terms of Belle, Beurre, Calebasse, Doyenne, Pear- 

 main, Pippin, Seedling, Beauty, Favorite, and other like useless 

 and improper titles to our fruits. The cases are very few where a 

 single word will not form a better name for a fruit than two or 

 more. Thus shall we establish a standard worthy of imitation 

 by other nations, and I suggest that we ask the co-operation of all 

 pomological and horticultural societies, in this and foreign coun- 

 tries, in carrying out this important reform. 



As the first great national pomological society in origin, the rep- 

 resentative of the most extensive and promising territory for fruit 

 culture, of which we have any knowledge, it became our duty to 

 lead in this good work. Let us continue it, and give to the world 

 a system of nomenclature for our fruits which shall be worthy of 

 the society and the country, — a system pure and plain in its dic- 

 tion, pertinent and proper in its application, and which shall be 

 an example, not only for fruits, but for other products of the earth, 

 and save our society and the nation from the disgrace of unmean- 

 ing, pretentious, and nonsensical names, to the most perfect, useful, 

 and beautiful productions of the soil the world has ever known. 



Your attention is also invited to the following circular relative 

 to a proposed international exhibit of fruits at New Orleans next 

 winter: 



AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



I desire to announce to all fruit growers, and to all persons inter- 

 ested in Horticulture, that an arrangement has just been effected 

 by which we hope to secure in the winter of 1884-5 the most ex- 

 tensive and complete exhibition of fruits and other horticultural 

 products that has ever been made. 



The World's Industrial Exposition will open in New Orleans on 

 the first Monday in December, 1884, and continue for six months. 

 This will be in the largest sense a World's Exposition of Industry, 

 and will in many essential features surpass any exposition hereto- 

 fore held in this or anj' other country. The provisions being made 

 for this great fair are of the most generous character. The main 

 building, now in course of erection, will cover thirty-two acres of 

 ground, and will give far more exhibition space than any structure 

 heretofore erected in this country. An Art Building, an Agricul- 



