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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
failure of imported stock led to the cultivation of the native 
grape, and Philadelphia laid claim to that. The Pennsylvani¬ 
ans had decided taste in those days, and when the advent of 
Concord was announced from Massachusetts, the committee 
which went to investigate, came back with “diphtheria in their 
throats.” Such was the reception given to the one grape that 
has crowded out all others. The grapes which emanated from 
Philadelphia included Bartram, Bonsel, Alexander, Archer, 
Bland, and Maxitawny, which was the first really good white 
grape. In pears, Bartram, Petrie, Brandywine, Penn, Tyson, 
Seckel, Washington, Ledger, Catherine, Early Wilmington, 
Chancellor, Jones, and Kieffer, belong to Philadelphia. There 
were, also, 38 varieties of apples, all prominent in their time> 
that had arisen about the city. Mr. Meehan insisted that the 
wrong man often got credit for a variety. It is not always the 
finder who deserves the credit, but he who puts it before the 
public—the man who knows when he sees a good thing. The 
Seckel pear owes its distribution to Dr. Hosack of New York; 
so, too, the Kieffer was not recognized by the man whose 
name it bears; it was W. Parry who saw it at the Centennial 
Exhibition, who really merits the honors in this case. 
THE AWARDS. 
An unusually fine exhibition of fruit was passed upon by a 
committee consisting of F. M. Hexamer, New York City; H. 
E. Van Deman, Virginia; John Craig, Iowa; G. B. Brackett, 
Washington, D, C., and A. G. Gulley, Connecticut, with the 
following result: 
Silver Wilder medals to the New Jersey State Horticultural Society 
for 696 plates of 12 different kinds of fruit; to Ellwanger & Barry ( 
Rochester, N. Y., for a choice collection of one hundred varieties 
of pears ; to the Agricultural Experiment Station of Arkansas 
for a collection of 15 varieties of long-keeping seedling apples; to the 
Agricultural Experiment Station of Michigan for a collection of apples, 
pears, peaches, plums and grapes (which includes several new sorts of 
much merit) as well as for a collection of photographs of orchard trees; 
to Parry’s Pomona Nurseries, Parry, N. J., for a collection of edible 
nuts of various kinds; to Roland Morrill, Benton Harbor, Mich., for an 
exhibit of Elberta and Kalamazoo peaches of superior merit, together 
with a collection of photographs showing the orchards and the method 
of pruning, and a statement of the treatment of the orchards, with ac¬ 
count sales from a Chicago commission man, showing prices ranging 
from |5 to $ 7.50 per bushel for selected peaches; to John Charlton, 
Rochester, N. Y., for his seedling grape Charlton. 
Bronze Wilder medals were awarded C. L. Watrous, DesMoines, la., 
for a collection of native plums; to Howard A. Chase, Pocono, Pa., for 
a collection of apples and plums, and to George E. Murrell, Fontella, 
Va., for an exhibit of apples and grapes. Honorable mention was made 
of the exhibits of Peder Pederson, Huntingdon Valley, Pa ; W. B. K. 
Johnson, Allentown, Pa.; the New York Experiment Station; L. 
Phelps, Sanford, Fla.; L. Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal.; the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural College Experiment Station; the Pennsylvania State College; 
Greening Brothers, Monroe, Mich., for Banana apple; C. C. Corby, 
Montclair, New Jersey, for Montclair and Corby grapes and for the 
Bloomfield apple, shown by C. R. Hartshorne, Brighton, Md. 
The following fruits were favorably commented on: Peaches, Evans, 
Dewey and Worcester; grape, Brown; blackcap raspberry, Evans; ap¬ 
ples, Canajoharie, Koffman’s June and Pride of the Hudson. 
ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
The following officers were elected: President, C. L. Wat¬ 
rous, Des Moines, Iowa; first vice-president, Thomas B. Mee¬ 
han, Philadelphia; secretary, William A. Taylor, Washington; 
treasurer, Professor L. R. Taft, of the Agricultural College, 
Michigan; vice-presidents, W. G. Vincenheller, Arkansas; J. 
H. Hale, Connecticut; Alexander Pullen, Delaware; W. Saun¬ 
ders, District of Columbia; G. L. Tabor, Florida; P. J. A. 
Berckmans, Jr., Georgia; H. M. Dunlap, Illinois; J. Troop j 
Indiana; Charles G Patten, Iowa; W. H. Barnes, Kansas; 
W. M. Munson, Maine; J. W Kerr, Maryland; M. C. Strong, 
Massachusetts; C. J. Monroe, Michigan; J. J. Evans, Missouri; 
C. C. Shaw, New Hampshire; I J. Blockerell, New Jersey; F. 
M. Hexamer, New York; J. Van Lindley, North Carolina; J. 
J. Harrison, Ohio; F. A. Waugh, Vermont; George E. Mor¬ 
rell, Virginia; H. W. Miller, West Virginia. 
Among those who served on committees during the meeting 
were: H. C. Irish, Shaw Gardens, St. Louis; Prof F. M. Web¬ 
ster, Wooster, O.; R. M. Kellogg, Three Rivers, Mich.; Byron 
D. Halstead, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Prof. W. B. Al- 
wood, Blacksburg, Va.; W. C. Strong, Waban, Mass.; Prof. H. 
Van Deman, Parksley, Va.; John Craig, Ames, la.; L. A. Good¬ 
man, Westport, Mo.; Prof. A. Waugh, Burlington, Vt.; Prof. 
W. R. Lazenby, Columbus, O.; W. H. Ragan, Greencastle, Ind. 
NOMENCLA TV RE. 
Prof. F. A. Waugh urged the necessity of a stable nomen¬ 
clature on a scientific basis. This was a necessity before there 
can be a scientific pomology. No botanist pretended to know 
the names of all the plants, but he had a system which made 
him acquainted in a general way, and that was what one 
wanted in our fruits. The American Pomological Society was 
not in a position to impose arbitrary rules—no society is big 
enough to force a rule, it can only formulate a principle. As 
to selection of names it must be remembered that a name was 
merely a designation, not a variety nor an advertisement. 
Publication was essential to the proper security of a name, and 
this could he done in anything that bore a date—a nursery¬ 
man’s catalogue offered a suitable medium. 
S. B. Parsons said he was glad to hear it suggested that a 
nursery catalogue would be regarded as a publication, and re¬ 
counted several instances where ornamental plants had been 
introduced by nurserymen in this country—named and duly 
described in a catalogue, but'such was ignored by our European 
friends, who seized upon the plant and renamed it. They did 
such things at Kew. Magnolia oleander had been renamed 
M. Watsoni, and M. Halli had come back to him as M. stellata. 
T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas, urged that the Secretary of 
Agriculture prepare an authoritative list of all fruit names. 
This to become a legal standard list and to which all catalogue 
makers were to be compelled to conform under penalty of ex¬ 
clusion from the mails. Further, in order to protect the pur¬ 
chasing public, it was advisable that state laws be enacted to 
punish such people as gave out false, overdrawn descriptions 
of new varieties, which thus became a sort of fraud. New 
varieties of fruits to be submitted to the United States Pom- 
ologist, and to be described by him before they could become 
subjects of interstate commerce. Legislation protected the 
sale of pure butter, and why not of fruit ? 
THE SEASON AT HUNTSVILLE. 
The growing season at Huntsville, Ala., has been good; all 
stock runs heavier in caliper than usual. Two year cherry 
are exceptionally fine, standard pear very smooth and hand¬ 
some, and a heavier stock here this season than usual. Peach 
run more to first-class grades than usual owing to the growing 
season. The stock of peach among Huntsville growers is about 
as heavy as last year. 
