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the best of which, above a dozen, were subse- 

 quently named. The numbers were used so 

 long and widely, however, that they are still 

 customarily given in all catalogs : " Rogers' 

 No. i, Goethe; Rogers' No. 3, Massasoit ; 

 Rogers' No. 4, Wilder; Rogers' No. 9, Lind- 

 ley/' etc. 



" The name of no living horticulturist 

 should be applied to a variety without his full 

 consent." But this is more a matter of polite- 

 ness (or decency) between man and man 

 than it is a concern of scientific nomenclature. 

 It is one of the penalties of being famous in 

 the horticultural world that then a man is 

 always liable to have some worthless pear or 

 strawberry advertised by his name. In the 

 case of the President of the United States, he 

 has a large percentage of all the new babies 

 in the country named after him especially 

 colored babies. 



In like manner there is no reason, aside 

 from a regard for common decency, against 

 the use of the name of a deceased horticul- 

 turist. 



We might infer from the fact that this code 

 mentions horticulturists only that the rule of 

 politeness did not apply in favor of poll- 



