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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
7 he National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
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should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
H3| l *Drafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AflERlCAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; vice-president, E. Albert¬ 
son, Bridgeport, Ind.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. 
Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Robert C. Berckmans, 
Augusta, Ga.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, ex-officio, chairman ; William 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; Wilson J. Peters, 
Troy, O.; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Annual convention for 1899—At Chicago, Ill., June 7, 8. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as secondr-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., November, 1898. 
THE SEASON’S TRADE. 
Special reports to the National Nurseryman from all sec- 
. tfons of the country plainly indicate a marked improvement in 
trade conditions. Last spring it was noted that there had been 
an increase in orders but prices remained generally low. 
It was prophesied that the effect of the turn of the tide would 
be felt in the matter of prices this fall and the reports in this 
issue indicate the fulfillment. Prices on apple and cherry 
trees and apple seedlings advanced steadily as the stock was 
cleaned up, especially in the West. It is expected that the 
surplus of pears and plums will be reduced considerably by 
spring. The Storrs & Harrison Company and Albertson & 
Hobbs say there is no reason why all kinds of nursery stock 
should not bring an advanced price for next spring. The 
Spaulding Nursery Company believes some buyers will not get 
all their wants supplied for spring. Others express the same 
opinion. The grape vine market is in better condition than 
for several seasons. 
The improved conditions have come slowly and therefore 
should be continuous. All in the trade are anxious to pro¬ 
mote them in every way possible and to guard against any 
action which might prove adverse. 
A NURSERY CONTRACT. 
Eight years ago, says a Nazareth, Pa., paper, a western nur¬ 
seryman was awarded a contract to set cut a large number of 
trees along the streets of Garden City, Kas.,upon the understand¬ 
ing that he was to be paid for such of them as might be found 
to be growing and thrifty at the end of two years. The two 
years rolled around and the contractor called for an inspec¬ 
tion and counting of the saplings. Under advice of the city 
attorney the municipal authorities refused either to conduct 
the inspection or to pay for the trees, claiming that the whole 
contract was illegal. 
The nurseryman carried his case to court, and has just been 
awarded a verdict for $33,133, representing the contract price 
of every tree which on his own testimony was in good condi¬ 
tion at the stipulated time. 
NEW SYSTEM OF NOMENCLATURE. 
Readers of this journal have been informed from time to 
time of the discussion of the necessity for a new system of 
nomenclature. Prominent horticulturists have been endeavor¬ 
ing to devise rules which will meet the conditions and simplify 
the present indiscriminate manner of naming fruits. 
Chief among those who have been interested in this subject 
are Assistant Pomologist William A. Taylor of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, who is secretary of the 
American Pomological Society ; Professor F. A. Waugh, of 
Vermont ; Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, and 
Professor H. E. Van Deman, the former chief of the division 
of pomology in the United States Department of Agriculture. 
In another column of this issue are the rules proposed at a 
recent meeting of the Horticulturists’ Lazy Club, of Cornell 
University. Professor Waugh, a member of the club, sent us 
a copy of the rules. He led the discussion by the members of 
the club. 
The American Pomological Society has adopted rules ; but 
they have not been enforced, because it has been felt that they 
are inadequate and that they were made for a special society 
It is held that there should be the same freedom in pomologi¬ 
cal as in botanical nomenclature where the discoverer of a 
new species or type has a right to name, describe and publish 
it himself. 
The following plan has been suggested as a means for secur¬ 
ing rules having national recognition : A set of rules to be 
formulated by a number of horticulturists and published in the 
horticultural journals ; discussion to be invited. Some prom¬ 
inent body of horticulturists will probably adopt the rules 
after they have been discussed and possibly amended. Other 
societies will take similar action and gradually they will come 
to have national recognition. 
This is a subject in which nurserymen ought to be much 
interested. Uniformity in the naming of varieties would facil¬ 
itate business in many ways. It is to be hoped that the Amer¬ 
ican Association of Nurserymen will aid in the work of 
establishing a uniform system. 
