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riotios bearing identical names may be distinguished by 
the addition of the name of the author who first de¬ 
scribed eacli, or by some other suitable distinguishing 
term. 
III. Publication, Desckiption and Citation 
12. Publication consists in : (1) The public distribu¬ 
tion of a printed name and description or characteriza¬ 
tion of the fruit; (2) the publication of a new name for 
a variety described elsewhere under a different name, 
number, or other untenable designation, the synonym 
being given. 
13. Publication of a name may be made in any book, 
bulletin, report, trade catalog or periodical of public dis¬ 
tribution and bearing date of issue. 
14. But a varietal name may be established by current 
usage in the locality of its origin, when well-known, and 
shall be considered as published and have precedence 
over a later printed name for the same variety. 
15. Complete description of a variety consists of a de¬ 
tailed account of the characteristics of the plant, foliage, 
flowers, fruit and habit of growth, so as to distinguish 
it from other varieties of similar appearance. 
16. The type of a variety is the fruit of the original 
plant; and type descriptions or illustrations shall be 
made from material produced by the original plant, or 
when this is not available, from a plant as near as poss¬ 
ible to the original in a sexual reproduction, and prefer¬ 
ably grown in the same pomological region. 
17. The full citation of a variety name consists of the 
name of the author who first described the variety, and 
the name, page, and date of the publication in which the 
description first appeared. An author-citation following 
a name refers to the author of the original description of 
a variety: e.g., Turley, C.P.C. Names of authors and 
published works may be abbreviated, in accordance with 
the usages of this society. 
Adopted November 8. 1923, at tbe New York meeting 
of the society. 
PBIZES OFFKUKD FOR POEM ON THE DAHLIA 
Mrs. Charles H. Stout has offered a prize of fifty dol¬ 
lars to be awarded for a new and original poem on tbe 
dahlia. 
The Carden Magazine has been cbosen as tbe medium 
througb wbicb the award will be made. 
Contestants may submit any number of entries witb 
the name and address of the author plainly marked on 
each one. 
They should be addressed to the 
Dahlia Poem Contest 
Editors of the Garden Magazine 
Garden City, N. Y. 
Competition closes October 1, 1924. 
A. E. Woblert, proprietor of the Garden Nurseries, 
Montgomery avenue. Narberth, Pennsylvania has jiur- 
chased ten acres of land for nursery purposes, situated 
about three miles from the present location on the main 
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This land will be 
used for growing a general line of nursery stock. 
THE PROPOSED NATIONAL ARBORETUM 
A meeting was recently held at the Cosmos Club, 
Washington, D. C., to discuss tin' need for a National 
Botanical Garden and Arboretum. 
It was attended by Dr. A. .1. Woods, of the University 
of Maryland, representing the American Horticultural 
Society; Prof. D. S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins, represent¬ 
ing the Botanical Society of America; E. W. Beasley, 
representing Association of American Foresters; Robert 
Pyle, West Grove, Pa., representing tbe American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurseiymen; Prof. F. V. Coville, representing 
the Washington Academy of Natural Sciences; R. G. 
Pierce, representing the Botanical Society of Washing¬ 
ton, and P. L. Ricker, secretary of the Wild Flower Pre¬ 
servation Society of America. 
The meeting resolved itself into a permanent commit¬ 
tee with Dr A. J. Woods as ehainnan, to do what it could 
to promote the idea and supply interested organizations 
with information regarding the same. 
^ The following statement has been issued by the Wild 
Flower Preservation Society of America and later a re¬ 
vised map will be published showing the location of the 
proposed national arboretum: 
A NATIONAL ARBORETUM AND GARDEN IN 
WASHINGTON.* 
The plans of the National Commission of Fine Arts are so far 
advanced that it has become necessary to remove the Washing¬ 
ton Botanical Garden from its present site, which is already oc¬ 
cupied in part by the Grant and Meade memorials. A tract 
of about 15 acres to the south has been tentatively approved 
as a new location, but this is too small to more than serve to 
continue the Garden in its present character. Trees require a 
great deal of room, and not over 40 species could be provided 
for on an acre of land. The present Garden is fulfilling a demand 
quite apart from the function of a National Arboretum and 
Garden. It has been suggested that, on its new site, it might 
be appropriately called either the Capitol or Congress Garden. 
A hearing before the Joint Committee on the Library, Congress 
of the United States,** in May, 1920, considered various pro¬ 
ton, D. c. 
posed sites for a National Arboretum, and testimony was given 
by experts from the United States Department of Agriculture, 
the directors of the New York and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, 
and prominent Landscape Gardeners and Nurserymen favoring 
the plan of the National Fine Arts Commission for a National 
Arboretum and Garden along the Anacostia River, including the 
area known as Mt. Hamilton, and making available about 800 
acres, with room for expansion up to about 2,000 acres. 
Value of an Arboretum and Garden to the General Pitrlk; 
1. Washington is one of the most cosmopolitan cities. There 
are large numbers of people here from every state in the Union, 
and it would be possible to grow in Washington many of the 
trees and shrubs which grow in their home states. There seems 
to be no other adequate way than through such an arboretum 
to interest the general public in the vast aesthetic and com¬ 
mercial store house of plant material which this country pos¬ 
sesses. It could not fail to become a center to which thousands 
would go each Sunday or holiday to familiarize themselves with 
the plants of their own home states and those of foreign coun¬ 
tries as well. 
2. EiVery foreigner who is interested in studying America 
comes to Washington. At present there is nothing here to re¬ 
mind him of the wonderful plant life of this great country 
such as he is familiar with at home in his own botanical garden. 
A National Arboretum here would be of the greatest value in 
making known to foreign visitors the botanical resources of the 
country. 
3. Something must be done to prevent many of our rare and 
beautiful trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants from becoming 
* Publi-shed jointly thronght their Botanical (larden Committees, by the 
Wild Flower I'reservation Societ.v and the Botanical Society of Washington. 
** For further data see I'arts I and II. of Hearing before this Committee 
and Report of the National Commission of Fine Arts. 
For additional copies address Box 3263, You Street Station, Washing- 
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