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be a renewed effort to institute an E:xperimental Gar- 
den, solely devoted to the end of horticultural skill. 
The peculiar adaptation of our climate to the increase 
and general introduction of many foreign varieties of 
fruits and plants seem to demand from our own efforts 
some adequate return. Our own resources need in- 
vestigation. ‘That we have talent, enterprise, and 
every desired means, cannot be questioned. ‘The 
present field of operation is too extensive. It needs 
combined effort, where the skill and science of every 
votary of the art, or amateur in the profession, can 
be united and appropriated. ‘To the fruit-grower this 
is evident; and a better opportunity of comparing 
the synonymy of pretended valuable varieties and the 
reduction to a perfect system of such only as are 
worthy his attention, is much needed. ‘To the dis- 
appointment, he has often experienced and must con- 
tinually experience by the most unwarrantable errors, 
he is too familiar. With such means, our work, Gen- 
tlemen, will be effective, and the brilliant individual 
talent, now as it were almost hopelessly lost or not 
sufficiently brought into action, will be concentrated 
to its full energy. ‘There is, perhaps, no branch of 
Horticulture which needs so much correction as does 
this. Owing to various practices, our catalogues of 
fruits are but so many lists of misnomers and long- 
standing errors. It is the duty of scientific institu- 
tions, like our own, to correct this abuse. Much has 
already been done in England, but much more re- 
mains to be accomplished. In no better place, nor 
under no more propitious circumstances, could this be 
effected than by our efforts. By critical examination, 
