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shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council. 



"3. This Act shall cease and determine if such School 

 of Horticulture be not established within two years from the 

 passing of this Act." 



Nomenclature.* — In continuance of the endeavors of 

 the American Pomological Society in reforming the nomencla- 

 ture of fruits and of the Station Horticulturists in recasting the 

 names of vegetables, the Society of American Florists at its 

 last meeting 



"Resolved, In view of the recommendations of the Nomen- 

 clature Committee, that a committee of three be appointed by 

 the chair, the secretaries of the Chrysanthemum, Carnation and 

 Rose Societies also to act as members, to prepare a list of deco- 

 rative plants handled by the American trade, for consideration 

 and adoption as the official list of this society ; said committee 

 to act under the following general instructions : 



"1. Natural species and varieties shall bear the Latin 

 names assigned to them in Nicholson's Dictionary, so far as 

 they are named, except that where differences exist between 

 the Dictionary and the Kew Index, now in course of publica- 

 tion, the name adopted by the latter shall be chosen. Species 

 first published or reinstated subsequent to the date of the latter 

 (1885) shall be treated in accordance with botanical custom, 

 especially that of the Kew Gardens. In all cases where the 

 application of this rule shall cause the displacement of a com- 

 monly used and well-known name, the latter shall be added as 

 a synonym. 



"2. Florists' varieties, races and forms shall be named 

 in accordance with the recommendations of the Nomenclature 

 Committee this day submitted ; but the greatest conservatism 

 is counseled in all changes which are likely to cause confusion 

 or detriment to legitimate business interests." 



The recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee, 

 referred to above, and of which Professor Trelease was chair- 

 man, made a report in which the rules adopted by the American 

 Pomological Society and the Station Horticulturists concerning 

 the names of varieties were commended, and which urged " upon 

 those originating plants requiring new names, the employment 

 of short, appropriate and neat vernacular names ; the avoidance 

 of misleading, long, high-sounding or vulgar names, and the 

 use of Latinized names exclusively in connection with species 

 and natural varieties." 



A National Bureau of Horticultural Nomenclature. — At the 

 last meeting of the American Horticultural Society in Chicago, 



*See Annals for 1889, 78, 106; Annals for 1890, 129; Annals for 1891, 155. 



