Part II. 



SPECIAL ANNALS. 



§ I. INTRODUCTIONS OF i8go. 



A LIST OF THE FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 

 INTRODUCED INTO AMERICAN TRADE DURING THE YEAR. 



The following list is a record of the novelties of the year, 

 SO far as it has been possible to obtain them. The greatest 

 pains have been taken to make the list complete and accurate. 

 Nearly all the introducers whose names appear in the list have 

 been consulted, and experimenters and others have aided in 

 the preparation. It cannot be hoped, however, that the list 

 is complete, but it is certainly sufficiently ample to possess 

 value as a historical record and as a basis for many interesting 

 calculations. 



The compilation of such a list is peculiarly difficult, not 

 only because of the widely scattered material but because of the 

 unsatisfactory aid which is often rendered by introducers them- 

 selves. These parties often send in lists of introductions for 

 the 3^ear containing plants which they had introduced and 

 catalogued in a previous year, and many times the information 

 concerning the novelties and their history is so inadequate or 

 uncertain that definite record cannot be made of it. Many 

 dealers decline or neglect to give information, and to these 

 difficulties must be added the unsystematic methods of enter- 

 ing novelties in catalogues, by which it is often impossible to 

 determine when the plant was introduced, for the same 

 A. H.— II (153) 



