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Society, as, for instance, b}' the substitution of Lucrative for Belle 

 Lucrative, and Nelis for Winter Nelis. Pomologists ma}- differ as 

 to how far it should be carried, but b}' comparison of views we 

 shall come to a final agreement, and the reform, we confidently 

 believe, will at least save us from objectionable names in the 

 future. 



Discussion. 



Robert Manning said that the agitation of the subject before the 

 Society was begun nearly forty years ago, when "Rules of Po- 

 mology " were adopted b}' this Society and other horticultural 

 societies. In 1867 similar rules were adopted by the American 

 Pomological Society. The improvement proposed b}^ Mr. Wilder 

 was adopted by Professor Decaisne, of the Jardin des Plantes, in 

 his magnificent work, the "Jardin Fruitier du Museum,'" com- 

 menced in 1858, but to Mr. Wilder belongs the credit of first 

 making it practical in American pomology. Some eminent po- 

 mologists have advocated retaining well-established names, such 

 as Rhode Island Greening, even though long, when like that they 

 are well established and easily pronounced ; and perhaps it will be 

 found best to retain familiar names, even if so long that they 

 would not now be applied. The principle advocated b}' Mr. 

 Wilder has been applied to the nomenclature of vegetables in the 

 publications of the Society, the Clark's No. 1, Beauty of Hebron, 

 and Early Rose potatoes becoming Clark, Hebron, and Rose, and 

 the speaker suggested that it be applied also to the names of gar- 

 den flowers and 'ornamental plants, thus avoiding such names as 

 Ilex AgnifoHum parvifoUa conspicna argenteo-maryinata ; or, 

 not to take so extreme an instance, Waterer's Holly is infinitely 

 l^referable to Ilex Aqiufolium xar. Watereri. On this point he 

 commended to the attention of those interested a little tract by 

 Dr. Masters, editor of the " London Gardeners' Chronicle," on the 

 " Nomenclature of Garden Plants." 



E. W. Wood expressed his regret that Mr. Wilder could not be 

 present to speak of the subject under discussion, which is one of 

 great interest to him as well as to all frnit growers. All we can 

 do is to follow out the suggestions which he has made. It is not 

 only important that fruits should be called by simple, sensible 

 names, but that each should have one standard name, such as the 

 American Pomological Society' has endeavored to establish. The 

 Baldwin apple, or Woodpecker as it was originall}- called, has 



