46. SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



AtTTHOEITT IKT PoMOLOGICAL ISToMENCLATUEE. ^WllO consti- 

 tutes the final autliority in settling questions of pomological 

 nomenclature? There is no constituted authority and pomolo- 

 gists have never agreed as to whom it should be given or how it 

 should be given. Probably most pomologists recognize the 

 American Ponjological Society as having chief jurisdiction. 

 Others find in the Division of Pomology of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture a source for reference. Certain indi- 

 viduals are tacitly recognized by nearly all pomologists as the 

 authority for certain fruits or groups of fruits, thus; Budd and 

 Hansen are the best informed on Russian fruits ; Warder's work 

 is still the best on apples; Waugh is consulted in regard to 

 plums and Card's excellent book on small fruits entitles him 

 to some jurisdiction in that branch of pomology. All things 

 considered our greatest pomological adjudicator was, in his life- 

 time, Charles Downing, and his "Fruits and Fruit Trees of 

 America" is still a high authority. 



At present there is a growing feeling that no one man, insti- 

 tution or book, can be looked upon as having exclusive dominion 

 in the matter of names, as to any one fruit, and that pomologists 

 must come to rely upon some system with well defined rules. 

 The sooner these are adopted and recognized by all the better 

 for the science of pomology. 



The Study of ISTomenclatuee. — l^ot much can be done in 

 the laboratory in the study of nomenclature. The student is. 

 urged to make himself familiar with the foregoing discussion, 

 and to read carefully the rules covering the nomenclature of 

 other sciences, especially those of botany and zoology. The fol- 

 lowing exercises should be carried out by the student at his 

 convenience if they are not assigned to him in the laboratory :— 



Many well known fruits are described under two or more 



