National and Educational Interests. 



155 



" Sec. 6. The grounds set apart as above provided shall be used for no 

 other purposes than authorized by this act ; and no intoxicating liquors 

 shall be sold or allowed thereon. For police purposes, and for the main- 

 tenance of proper roads and walks, the said grounds shall remain subject 

 at all times to the control of the said Board of Commissioners of the De- 

 partment of Parks ; but otherwise, after the suitable laying out of the same, 

 and the construction of proper roads and walks therein by the Department 

 of Parks, > the said grounds and buildings shall be under the management 

 and control of the said corporation. The said grounds shall be open and 

 free to the public daily, including Sundays, subject to such restrictions only 

 as to hours as the proper care, culture and preservation of the said garden 

 may require ; and its educational and scientific privileges shall be open to 

 all alike, male and female, upon such necessary regulations, terms and con- 

 ditions as shall be prescribed by the managers of those departments." 



Legal control of varieties. The prolonged discussion which 

 ran through the year 1890 upon legal protection to origina- 

 tors or owners of varieties of plants, subsided during the 

 present year.* The only new step taken in the movement Legal 

 towards protecting plantsmen, is the following recommenda- protection 

 tion of a committee (JL. H. Bailey, N. H. Albaugh, S. B. 

 Parsons) of the American Association of Nurserymen, which 

 the association adopted :f 



"We are of the opinion that a national register of cultivated plants should 

 be made under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture at Washing- 

 ton. This register should contain the name of the plant, its place of origin, 

 originator, how originated, description, and if possible a drawing or photo- 

 graph of it. This register would serve as a record simply, and would in 

 no sense constitute a ' protection right ' or * patent right ' to the originator 

 or introducer. It would serve for a reference in all doubtful or disputed 

 cases, and would be a recognition to the originator ; and it would afford 

 a distinct step in advance in the study of systematic horticulture. 



"Asa means of distinct protection, we advise that all introducers use a 

 trade-mark, which is now held by the patent office to constitute a legal 

 protection." 



Nomenclature. Reform in names of horticultural varieties 

 is gaining ground perceptibly in all directions. The most 

 gratifying feature of this progress concerns the nomenclature of 

 kitchen-garden vegetables. It will be remembered that a *^°™ encla 

 committee from the horticulturists of the experiment stations 

 formulated a set of rules in 1889 for the revision of the nomen- 

 clature of vegetables, and the committee also published a cat- 

 alogue of all varieties sold in American markets that year, J 



*Fora full history and discussion of this subject, see Annals for 1890, pp. 1 12-129. 

 fProc. Am. Assoc. Nurserymen, 1891, 129. 

 j Annals for 1889, 106. 



