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be a renewed effort to institute an Experimental Gar- 

 den, solely devoted to the end of horticultural skill. 

 The peculiar adaptation of our climate to the increase 

 and general introduction of many foreign varieties of 

 fruits and plants seem to demand from our own efforts 

 some adequate return. Our own resources need in- 

 vestigation. That we have talent, enterprise, and 

 every desired means, cannot be questioned. The 

 present field of operation is too extensive. It needs 

 combined effort, where the skill and science of every 

 votary of the art, or amateur in the profession, can 

 be united and appropriated. To the fruit-grower this 

 is evident; and a better opportunity of comparing 

 the synonymy of pretended valuable varieties and the 

 reduction to a perfect system of such only as are 

 worthy his attention, is much needed. To the dis- 

 appointment, he has often experienced and must con- 

 tinually experience by the most unwarrantable errors, 

 he is too familiar. With such means, our work, Gen- 

 tlemen, will be effective, and the brilliant individual 

 talent, now as it were almost hopelessly lost or not 

 sufficiently brought into action, will be concentrated 

 to its full energy. There is, perhaps, no branch of 

 Horticulture which needs so much correction as does 

 this. Owing to various practices, our catalogues of 

 fruits are but so many lists of misnomers and long- 

 standing errors. It is the duty of scientific institu- 

 tions, like our own, to correct this abuse. Much has 

 already been done in England, but much more re- 

 mains to be accomplished. In no better place, nor 

 under no more propitious circumstances, could this be 

 effected than by our efforts. By critical examination, 



