THE BUBAL HEW-YORKER 
H.EAJDT OCTOBH3. 1ST, 
An entirely new book on farming, entitled: 
HOW THE FARM PAYS 
WHY ARE OUR VEGETABLES SO 
SLIGHTED? 
One who has made any considerable study 
of vegetable nomenclature can hardly fail to 
take pleasure in looking over the reports of 
the American Bornological Society. We find 
that here the naming of varieties is reduced 
to a system. Synonyms are carefully weeded 
out, inappropriate, and inconvenient names 
are changed, the poorer varieties arc prompt¬ 
ly st ricken from the list, and novelties are ad¬ 
mitted only upon thoroughly approved cre¬ 
dentials. This society, composed as it is 
largely of nurserymen, has oertainly shown a 
most praiseworthy zeal in placing the true 
merits of every fruit before the public. 
But how is it with vegetable*? Bo far as I 
know, the' subject of vegetable nomenclature 
has received almost no attention in this coun¬ 
try. Seedsmen seem to hold thq undisputed 
right to change the names of varieties at 
pleasure. Indeed, comparatively few sorts 
are offered by all seedsmen under precisely 
the same names. Not only arc old varieties 
frequently offered under new names, but the 
names are used so loosely that one who con¬ 
sults two catalogues is often at a loss to know 
whether the same variety is offered in both or 
not. To show that I am not speaking unad¬ 
visedly, I will give three examples out of a 
score or more that might be given. The de¬ 
servedly popular Egyptian Beet was actually 
offered by different seedsmen in this country 
during the Spring of 1883-4, under the fol¬ 
lowing names: Flat Egyptian, Egyptian Tur¬ 
nip, Egyptian Red Turnip, Egyptian Blood 
Turnip, Egyptian Extra Early Turnip, Extra 
Early Dark Egyptian, Extra Early Egyptian 
Blood Turnip, Egyptian and Dark Red Turnip 
Rooted. In eight catalogues 1 find the follow¬ 
ing varieties of cucumber offered; Long 
Green, Improved Long Green, Long Green 
Prickly, Improved Long Green Prickly, Ex¬ 
tra Long Green Smooth, Long Green Smooth 
from Athens, Long Green Turkey, and London 
Long Green. In the same catalogues are 
offered Early White Spine Cucumbers, Im 
proved White Spine, Peerless White Spine, 
Improved Early White Spine or Arlington, 
Extra Long White Spine, Improved White 
Spined, Early Whito Spined, Extra Long 
White Spined, and White Improved Spine. I 
have also prepared a list of abominable names 
that are applied to vegetables, but I am sure 
the above are sufficiently absurd. What 
would the esteemed President of the American 
Ponaologioal Society think of this sort of no¬ 
menclature? Surely we flud no snch abomi¬ 
nations in the catalogues of our nurserymen. 
But this is not all. The same variety is often 
offered under several names that have not the 
least resemblance to each other. last season 
seven samples of early peas, each bearing a 
different name, grown.in oar garden, judged 
by the most careful standard that I was able 
to devise, were pronounced identical. I pro¬ 
pose to add at least one new name to this list 
the present season. In lettuce, of which 82 
so-called varieties are offered in the catalogues 
of our seedsmen for 1884,22 names appear thus 
far to be synonyms. 
It need hardly be added that this abuse calls 
for a remedy. The products of the garden 
are only second in importance to those of the 
orchard. How can the market gardener, to 
whom success often depends upon procuring 
seeds of a particular variety, bo sure of ob 
tainiug what he orders under such a muddled 
system of nomenclature? Is it any wonder 
that, disappointment so often results from pur 
chased seeds? The numlter of so-called varie¬ 
ties of the common garden vegetables offered 
in our seed catalogues at the present time, 
actually exceeds by hundreds the entire num¬ 
ber of varieties of all kinds of fruits on the 
list of the American Pomologieal Society. 
How many names in this long vegetable list 
are true varieties, and how muny of these are 
deserving of “two stars”? I should like to see 
this subject agitated with the energy its im¬ 
portance demands. “elm.” 
N. Y. Agr. Exp. Sta. 
[Remarks—There is, alas! entirely too much 
truth in the statements of our friend, and we 
commend them to the careful consideration of 
our seedsmen. If the re naming of old va rieties 
and this great multiplication of names are 
continued, we shall soon be in such a muddle 
of names, that people cannot buy anything 
with any certainty of getting what they want, 
and it seems to us that seedsmen cannot afford 
to so conduct their business as that they shall 
forfeit the confidence of planters. Eds.] 
Northport. I . on which Umte products ha* been rsl»<-I. are model- worthy of Imitation by th<- I-ns of i 
thousand* engaged In rartulug who have failed to make It the profitable business that It baa been, and still | 
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