THE MAGAZINE 



O F 



HORTICULTURE. 



MARCH, 1848. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Rules of ^^ American^ ^ Pomology adopted by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society ; with Remarks upon 

 the saine. By the Editor. 



In our last two numbers, we have promised our readers our 

 views upon the subject which has, of late, attracted some con- 

 siderable attention among pomologists, viz., the Rules of 

 "American" Pomology, as adopted by the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, and also by some other societies and 

 associations, both horticultural and agricultural, in various 

 parts of the country ; but, nearly in every instance, with some 

 variation, and, in several, with such important ones, as to 

 give them but very few features in common : of the latter 

 character, are those adopted by the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society, which will be found at p. 67, and by the Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, «fec. But it 

 is of the rules for American pomology, adopted by the society 

 first named, that we shall now speak, and discuss their pro- 

 priety and utility, so far as they are designed to aid in the 

 great object for which they were undoubtedly intended, viz., 

 the prevention of the accumulation of synonymes, and the 

 spread of inferior varieties of fruit. These, at least, we take 

 to be the objects of the rules which have been enacted. 



The whole matter has had our most careful consideration, 

 and we have deferred it from our last for the sole purpose of 

 bringing it before cultivators in such a manner as to engage 

 their attention, and show the importance of thorough reflec- 

 tion before enacting any rules of such an arbitrary character 

 as will not be adopted by all pomologists. and thus the very 



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