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thing, doctor, you shall always have my patronage. (Laugh- 
ter and applause). 
Mr. Kimball: No doubt Mr. Harris can have our patronage. 
Mr. Dartt: He would not have been sure of it if he had ac- 
cepted the thanks without the twenty-five dollars. 
NOMENCLATURE AND CATALOGUE. 
J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 
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Your committee has not at any time forgotien the importance of a 
correct and appropriate name for every variety of fruit that has merit 
enough to be considered worthy of cultivation, but we have not 
found the past season as favorable for our investigation as the aver- 
age, owing to the very light crop of many of the newer varieties, 
especially the Russians, the drouth and other unfavorable cir- 
cumstances having prevented the full and perfect development of 
many varieties. Also, we did not get into correspondence with the 
Division of Pomology at Washington in time to receive any assis- 
tance in the matter. ; 
During the fall samples were sent us from a few parties in this 
state and from Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, none of which were 
true to the names under which trees had been purchased, and, very 
generally,they were varieties unknown in pomology, so that usually 
we have reported to the sender that they were not the variety named. 
This is done to prevent their being wrongly entered for premiums 
at fairs and to save disapointment to the exhibitor and unnecessary 
trouble to the awarding committee. It becomes the more necessary 
to get a variety before the public under its correct name, because, 
too often, the awarding committees are selected without any refer- 
ence to their knowledge of fruits. We find some exhibitors who 
enter every thing on the list for which premiums are offered and 
are always on hand to bring something forward for the prize if the 
true variety does not come into competition. This practice should 
not be tolerated, and no award should be made to any fruit, no 
matter how good, except under its correct name. 
We submit the following varieties as eligible toa place in our 
catalogue: 
Peerless. Size,6: form, round-oblate, conic; color, greenish-yel- 
low, mostly covered with stripes and splashes:of red; stem, long, 
medium stout, in a broad, smooth, greenish cavity; calyx, colored 
in a medium, much wrinkled basin; flesh, pale, greenish-yellow, 
medium juicy, tender; flavor, subacid, good; core, medium large, 
nearly closed; season, January and later; origin, Rice county, Minn., 
from seed of Duchess of Oldenburg. 
Avista. Size,5 to 6; form, round-ovate, inclining to oblique; color, 
yellowish-green with painted stripes and splashes of thin brownish- 
red and numerous irregular whitish and gray dots in the stem; 
flesh, greenish-yellow, fine grained; subacid flavor; stem, long and 
slender in regular, rather deep cavity; calyx, closed; basin, medium, 
