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Curtis Nyc Smith Prof. J. G. Sanders 
M. It. Cashman Geo. A. Marshall 
Prof. E. Lee Worsham, Stale Entomologist, Atlanta, Ga. 
Section 8: (Miscellaneous) 
10.50 Report of Nomenclature Committee (10 minutes) 
J. Horace McFarland, Chairman. 
Harlan P. Kelsey 
11.00 “Accepted Horticultural Names—Will Arbitrarily 
Adopted Names Supersede those iu Common Use?” 
— (10 minutes) Prof. L. II. Bailey, Ithaca, N. V. 
11.10 Discussion— (20 minutes) 
Prof. E. R. Lake John Dayton 
1). S. Lake W. W. Iloopes 
11.30 Report of the Committee on Root Gall—(10 min¬ 
utes) E. A. Smith 
11.40 Question Box, lead by (20 minutes) 
.). W. Mill. Des Moines, Iowa 
12.00 Unfinished Business. 
Resolutions 
Adjournment. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE 
The Committee on Nomenclature has joined itself with 
a similar committee of the Ornamental Growers Associa¬ 
tion, and under the vigorous attention of the secretary 
and several members an important meeting has been held 
and progress instituted. 
As the work opened out before the Committee, it has 
appeared that the standardizing of horticultural names, 
especially of horticultural common names, would tend 
strongly toward making buying easier, and therefore 
toward making business better. 
It has been thought that inasmuch as I In* Federal Agri¬ 
cultural Department has done wonderful things for I he 
farmers ol tin? land, it was not unfair to have I lie same 
Department do just a little bit for tin 1 nursery.. of the 
land. We lound that the office of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry was very favorable toward helping the detail 
work required, but had no money. 
Getting federal co-operation, which .ans better and 
quicker work and without calling upon each nurseryman 
for a special contribution, therefore depends on a federal 
appropriation additional to that already provided lor the 
Department of Agriculture. Senator J. W. Wadsworth, 
of New York, has introduced II. R. 12717, which pro¬ 
vides that $3,000 shall be appropriated, in addition to 
other sums for other work, in order that the Department 
will have funds to go on with this matter of getting ns 
uniform and usable common and scientific names. 
The Committee has gotten this proposition as far as it 
can. It is now up to the nurserymen to get it through. 
You have a congressman and two senators who will re¬ 
spect a letter from you because you are a voting consti¬ 
tuent. We ask you, therefore, to write that letter at 
once, urging immediate and favorable action upon Sena¬ 
tor Wadsworth’s amendment to the Agricultural Appro¬ 
priation Bill, H. R. 12717. Also write Senator Wadsworth. 
Get busy; get busy promptly; get busy vigorously, and 
you will secure a little plain justice for the nurserymen 
and a large amount of good help toward better business. 
Yours truly, 
J. Horace McFarland, Chairman. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Secretary. 
J. R. MAYHBW 
Waxahackie, Texas 
Chairman of Publicity Committee 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
ALBERT F. MEEHAN 
Dresher, Pa. 
Chairman Exhibits Committee of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
T. J. FERGUSON 
Wauwatosa, Wis. 
Chairman of Arrangements 
and Entertainment Committee 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
