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IV 

 EXAMPLES OF SCIENTIFIC METHODS, 



In the preceding chapters I have called attention to the obvious 

 need of better methods in horticultural nomenclature. We are all 

 hoping for the time when the study of horticulture shall be put upon 

 the same plane with other natural sciences, and we believe that when 

 that time comes we shall make much more rapid and permanent pro- 

 gress. To a very considerable extent, this proper habilitation of hor- 

 ticulture waits for the establishment of an accurate and unequivocal 

 nomenclature. We have at hand a method which, if generally prac- 

 ticed, would secure a rational system of horticultural names ; and it 

 was in the hope of promoting, to some small degree, the use of this 

 method, that I have, in preceding articles, transcribed the best known 

 nomenclatural rules and have added a few comments. But the best 

 illustration of what is needed lies in those few publications which 

 have followed carefully the methods set forth. I will refer to two. 



Prof. Bailey's second report on Japanese plums (Cornell Bulletin 

 106, 1896,) gives a first-rate example of the proper method consistently 

 employed in pomology. We find, for instance, one variety introduced 

 in this way : 



DOUGLAS (R. H. Price, Bui. 32, Tex. Exp. Sta., p. 488, 1894). 

 ' Munson, of Bailey (Cornell Bui. 62, p. 27. ) 



Hytcutkayo, of Whitaker. 



Hattankio, of some. 



This is followed by a partial description, a fuller description 

 having already been given by the same author in the same series of 

 bulletins. The reference in parenthesis in the first line gives credit 

 to Prof. Price, who first used the name Douglas for this variety. It 

 also shows where and when the name was published. The following 

 three lines give the synonymy of the variety. The second line records 



