96 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Books and leaflets should be used largely as guides by the 

 teacher and occasionally by the pupil for supplementary reading 

 or reference, but the book of nature is the principal text-book for 

 the boys and girls. 



Q. What I referred more to was something that would give 

 the child a correct naming of all the parts which are necessary 

 for the child to know. We know that many of the names of the 

 parts, the common way we call them is not correct according to 

 the language which great scholars use. 



Mr. Powell: 



Never mind the great names. The child will see the names of 

 plants and of their parts from day to day and hear them used 

 by the teacher and they become in time a part of the common 

 language of the pupil. I was stuffed with big names in school 

 and it took me a long time to get over the feeling that if I knew 

 the name of a plant, I knew all about it. 



VARIETIES. 



Inquiry was made concerning the York Imperial, and Prof. 

 Munson replied by saying : 



"It is a very good variety and one that is becoming quite prom- 

 inent a little further south. The principal objection to it is that 

 it is a little rusty and not highly colored enough for our northern 

 markets." 



Secretary Knowlton said Mr. Van Deman recently called his 

 attention to this variety and observed that it deserved a trial in 

 Maine. He believed it would do well there. He also called 

 attention to some specimens of this variety he obtained from Buf- 

 falo through the kindness of Mr. Van Deman. He also referred 

 to some Sutton Beauty, Rome Beauty and Missouri Ben Davis 

 obtained from the same source. He also called attention to some 

 fine specimens of Arctic sent in by Mr. O. K. Gerrish of Lake- 

 ville, Mass., and a plate of apples grown in East Dixfield. This 

 variety, last year, sold in the Liverpool market for 27 shillings. 

 It was sold as N. Y. Pippin, but he doubted the correctness of the 

 name, which no one present had been able to correct. 



