THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
2Sl 
Secretary Lake: As to revision; 1. We find that the Dumas plan for 
promulgating a strictly commercial list of apples for the whole country, 
with specific ratings, inadvisable at this time; and further, we believe 
that the ends sought to be secured by this plan may be the best served by 
state or district action. 
2. That the fruit list or catalog be revised; the varieties being ar- 
ranged alphabetically and accompanied by their respective ratings: That 
the old alignment be discarded and that we request state horticultural 
societies to recommend lists of fruits for the different parts of their re- 
spective states, thus making state lines district lines. 
3. That the petition of the Virginia State Horticultural Society re- 
questing that the name Albemarle Pippin be recognized as an official or 
standard name for the apple grown as such in Virginia, be not granted. 
The best of available evidence proves that this fruit is Yellow Newtown, 
and as there is no reason to believe that the Government, under a recent 
ruling, will deem the use of this name, misbranding, there can be no pos- 
sible source of injustice or loss to the Virginia orchardists from this action. 
4. That in the re-rating of varieties as to quality the ratings be made 
upon a basis of 40 points for dessert, 35 for market, 25 for culinary values. 
5. That all names shall consist of one word, except under such con- 
ditions as make it expedient to use two: e. g., Early Elberta, Red June, 
Black Ben, etc. 
In connection with this last clause I want to ask how the Society 
explains the use of the term “Lue Gim Gong” for an orange when its code 
requires that the names of all new varieties be restricted to one word. 
The Society awarded a Wilder medal at Tampa to the orange named Lue 
Gim Gong and so struck it on the medal. Now we insist that the society 
perform according to its own rules. It seems to me practically impossible 
to confine our nomenclature to a monomial system; and I recommended to 
the committee a binomial system, but they said no — make such words as 
“Early,” “Yellow,” and the like “the exception.” 
Col. Brackett: I think clause 2, to confine the district to the state 
very wrong. There are large sections of the country to which we ought 
not to apply that action; and the districts should not be confined to state 
lines. They will vary in different states, and for that reason I am opposed 
to any such ruling as that— confining it to the state. Fruit districts have 
been adjusted as far as they well can be according to topographical, and 
natural conditions, and you will find perhaps the same conditions in a part 
of one state as in another state, and whole states may be very similar. I 
consider that it is a very great mistake to confine them to state lines. I 
move to reject that clause of the report. Motion, on later vote, was carried. 
Motion carried. — Mr. S. W. Fletcher: I am a member of that committee 
which made that recommendation, and the motives that prompted the com- 
mittee in recommending that were these: The fruit districts of the American 
Pomological Society were established many years ago, when there was not a 
great deal of knowledge of the minor variations in soil conditions, etc., in 
states, and when there were very few, if any, state horticultural societies. 
The time has come now when we have strong state horticultural societies 
in each state, which have the power and ability and knowledge to make up 
