B. P. I.—91. Pom. I.—23. 
NOMEN CrA TURE Gra HE APPEE: 
A CATALOGUE OF THE KNOWN VARIETIES REFERRED TO IN AMER- 
ICAN PUBLICATIONS FROM 1804 TO 1904, 
INTRODUCTION. 
The following catalogue of named varieties of apples, with their 
various synonyms, though far from complete, embraces all or nearly 
all the names that appear in the published works of American writers 
on this fruit; in the serial numbers of the Magazine of Horticulture 
and of the Horticulturist, during their long periods of publication; in 
the transactions of the American Pomological Society, and other sim- 
ilar publications; in the reports of the State agricultural experiment 
stations; in the lists of Benjamin Buckman and of Charles Gibb; in 
the reports of the Pomologist of the United States Department of 
Agriculture; in many of the nursery catalogues and trade lists, and in 
other available publications. 
The primary object of this bulletin is to bring together in one com- 
prehensive volume all known names that have appeared in the Ameri- 
can literature of the apple. Many of these names have been printed 
without descriptions of the fruit, and on further investigation some 
will doubtless prove to be synonyms of other varieties. It is believed 
that this publication will be especially useful in correcting and simpli- 
fying the nomenclature of the apple now well known to be in more or 
less confusion, and that it will become a standard guide in the naming of 
varieties in the future. To nurserymen who should desire correct 
names for their varieties, and especially to originators, who would 
avoid the serious mistake of duplicating names in bestowing them on 
their new products, this list must come as a valuable aid and helper. 
In the nomenclature of this list the revised rules of the American 
Pomological Society have been followed. One of these rules, and per- 
haps the most important one, relates to the simplifying of our fruit 
nomenclature. All unseemly and superfluously long names are reduced 
to the simplest and most intelligible forms that will not bring them in 
conflict with other names. ‘The orthography is frequently changed to 
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