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same hybrid sprung up, and while the seedlings from 

 the one place are recorded as merely vernixium, the 

 other is given the name of Daviesianum; if you notice 

 this, and are interested in such culture: does it not dawn 

 upon you that it is very high time that some definite 

 plan was devised upon which to depend for naming and 

 classifying the nurselings of our care? It must. And 

 should not every one rejoice and gladly consent if some- 

 body proposes such classification, provided his list is a 

 presentable and acceptable one? I myself do not be- 

 lieve in authority any more than the next, and openly 

 confess to the knowledge of the detriment worked unto 

 science when blindly following the arrangements of an 

 autocrat. But now when the trouble has assumed such 

 threatening proportions, and everybody interested is 

 clamoring "Where are we going?" would it not be best 

 to adhere to some plain system and be ruled by it in 

 future? Do not mind that it is an obscure and unheard- 

 of person who proposes a reorganization. The gambling 

 fraternity of the race-course has its stud-book, and swears 

 by its record. Let us dealing with scientific objects 

 unite and stay by a standard of organization, not mind- 

 ing the hurting of the feelings of this or the other just 

 because his seedling's name is not the legitimate one. 



My list should establish order in the chaos, and the 

 purchaser of it can depend that with every year I will 

 put before him, at a nominal figure, the supplement 

 record of the past season. 



