APPENDIX. 107 



CORRECT NAflES OF OUR TREES. 



The indigenous trees of the United States have been 

 carefully studied of late and their names established espe- 

 cially by two eminent authorities Prof. C. S. Sargent, 

 Director of Arnold Arboretum near Boston, and author of 

 the lately completed Sylva of North America, in twelve 

 royal folio volumes, worth $30 each; the other authority 

 being Mr. Geo. B. Sud worth, Dendrologist of the Division 

 of Forestry, Department of Agriculture at Washington and 

 author of two painstaking volumes, "Nomenclature of 

 American Trees" (1897), and "Check List of American 

 Trees with Their Ranges" (1898). The old-time botanist 

 or cultivator is often displeased to find in modern books 

 many new names for old acquaintances and some of them 

 are found resisting the suppression of loved household 

 words, but sooner or later, the right names required by 

 the laws governing nomenclature must be taken up and 

 adopted. Nurserymen, cultivators, park superintendents, 

 as well as lumber dealers and tree-lovers generally, will 

 show good judgment and do the public a valuable service 

 by conquering their prejudices and quickly adapting their 

 language to the now fully determined and carefully pre- 

 sented legitimate names. 



For a few years it may be advisable for lumber dealers to 

 quote the former name (in parenthesis) until the true name 

 becomes familiar, a practise already observed on the Pacific 

 Coast to a large extent. 



Though recent publishers of plants accept the new rules 

 of priority and synonomy, Professor Sargent is more con- 

 servative than Mr. Sudworth in the interpretation or appli- 

 cation of the laws. The Giant Sequoia or Big Tree is a 



