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fastened to a wire expanding spring by means of which it is adjusted, in 
the different sizes in which it is manufactured, to any tree, without interfer- 
ing with the tree or injuring its bark. To the pad and spring is attached 
a metal apron, the under side of which is covered with a sticky substance 
inoculated with an insecticide that is sure death to all creeping things which 
infest a tree. He said the device had not yet been placed on the market, but 
would be very shortly. 
The following paper w T as read by Prof. W. H. Ragan, of Greencastle, Ind.:. 
SUGGESTIONS ON CATALOGUE REVISION. 
BY PROF. W. H. RAGAN, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, CHAIRMAN OF COM- 
MITTEE ON REVISION OF CATALOGUE. 
Mr. President— I will take some liberties with the subject assigned me, on 
your program, by your worthy Secretary, and add a shart report of my doings 
as Chairman of your Committee on Revision of Catalogue, and also make a 
few brief comparisons of the present catalogue, which has just been pub- 
lished as Bulletin No. 8, of the Division of Pomology, and its immediate 
predecessor, which was published in 1897 as Bulletin No. 6, of that Division. 
I find, by this comparison, that Bulletin No. 8, embraces the names of 1,161 
varieties of fruits and 62 of nuts. There are also, included in Section 3, or 
that portion of the Catalogue embracing “species of native and introduced 
fruits 1 and nuts grown under cultivation in the open air,” 159 species of fruits 
and 31 of nuts. Of this latter class many are already successfully domesti- 
cated and utilized as articles of human food, and all are hopeful species in 
the hands of the experimenter. Bulletin No. 6 embraces a total of 1,038 varie- 
ties of cultivated fruits and 69 of nuts. It also includes, in Section '3, 143 
species of fruits and 30 of nuts. 
It might seem difficult for your Chairman to prove that this increase of 
123 varieties of fruits as given in Bulletin No. 8 is an improvement over its 
predecessor since brevity is generally considered meritorious in select lists of 
this character. But when the extent of territory covered is taken into con- 
sideration, together with the fact that this catalogue really represents nine- 
teen distinct lists, and the pressure that is now being brought to bear on your 
committee, by interested if not in some instances by designing parties, to 
secure places for favorites on said lists, the Society will perhaps indulge the 
Committee in this slight expansion of its Catalogue of varieties. I will add,, 
however, that many varieties have been stricken from the old lists as either 
valueless or unworthy, while quite a number may now be found listed which 
were not heretofore. I also find that while there is an aggregate increase in 
varieties, taking all the different species into consideration, there is an actual 
decrease in some of the leading fruits, as, for instance the pear list which 
consisted of 95 varieties in Bulletin 6, while in Bulletin 8 there are but 79. 
I feel that I cannot do better, by w r ay of report of my doings as your Chair- 
man, than to offer you the following, which appears in an introduction to 
Bulletin No. 8. 
“The Revised Catalogue of Fruits prepared under the joint auspices of the 
American Bornological Society and the Division of Pomology of the United 
States Department of Agriculture is herewith submitted. 
