THE FKUIT CATALOGUE. 



It has been ten years since the Fruit Catalogue of the Society has 

 appeared in the annual report, the last revision having been made at 

 the Winter Meeting of the Society held in February, 1886. The 

 original list was modeled with much care, and its preparation in- 

 volved a good deal of work. But however correct and good a guide 

 a list of fruit might have been for 1876, the same becomes somewhat 

 obsolete for 1886, as relates to the small fruits, especially the whole 

 list of berries. The Executive Committee of the Society felt that it 

 was time to have the list again appear in our Transactions. Even if it 

 was published in the form of its last revision, it would serve to bring 

 it to the attention of our members and lead to its ultimate perfection. 

 As there was no opportunity to revise the list at the time of the meet- 

 ing at Turner, the Executive Committee decided to allow the Secre- 

 tary to send proofs of the Catalogue to the members of the Fruit 

 Committee and leading growers in the several counties, for corrections, 

 such corrections to be embodied in the list. This has been done and 

 the few changes that appear are the result of this action of the Com- 

 mittee. In general there have been few changes in the list of apples, 

 the chief revisions occuring in those divisions relating to the small 

 fruits. Under this action the Secretaty, and not the Society, is re- 

 sponsible for the changes. The list will be found to be somewhat 

 modernized by this course, while its authority, in the main, has not 

 been lessened. Its publication now, after an interval of ten years, 

 will at least direct attention to whatever errors it may contain, and 

 to have these errors pointed out and corrected is one object in pub- 

 lishing the Catalogue. Corrections to it are invited from all fruit 

 growers in the State. 



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