COMPILER’S NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
Since the publication of the first edition of this bulletin much infor- 
mation not heretofore available has been secured. Some of this matter 
is new, but a large proportion of it has been derived from the manu- | 
script notes of Mr. Charles Downing, made after his last publication 
was issued. These notes are very voluminous and in many instances 
they correct Mr. Downing’s published conclusions in regard to varie- 
ties, ete. Many changes and corrections that appear in these addenda 
are made on the authority of Downing’s manuscript, for the use of 
which we are indebted to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts, where these valuable papers belong. 
Many other changes, amendments, and corrections have resulted 
from correspondence with Mr. Benjamin Buckman, of Illinois, from 
whose long list of undescribed varieties which he is testing many quo- 
tations were made in the first edition of this bulletin. The compiler 
is also indebted to many others for valuable assistance in detecting and 
pointing out errors and in suggesting desirable changes. A further 
and more diligent search of the American literature of the apple has 
resulted in the discovery of a few additional varieties and several syn- 
onyms that will not be found in the body of the work. They are here 
added in alphabetic order, with such information concerning origin 
and such descriptions as have been found available. 
An effort made some years ago to abbreviate and simplify the nomen- 
clature of varieties, however desirable it may have been on many 
accounts, has not always met with popular approval, and in some cases 
it has brought about a conflict with existing names. For this reason a 
few names have been restored to their original forms, the most notable 
of which are Cole Quince, Rhode Island Greening, Rome Beauty, and 
Smith Cider. 
IWiseldagiv: 
Wasuineton, D. C., July 19, 1908. 
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