At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mr. Manning, the secretary said, that the agitation of this subject was begun nearly forty years ago, when "rules of pomology" were adopted by this society. In 1867 similar rules were adopted by the American Pomological Society. The improvement proposed by Mr. Wilder was adopted by Professor Decaisne of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris in his magnificent work, the "Jardin Fruitier du Museum," commenced in 1858; but to Mr. Wilder belongs the credit of first making it practical in American pomology. The same principle has been applied to the nomenclature of vegetables in the publications of the society. Clark's No. 1, Beauty of Hebron and Early Rose potatoes becoming Clark, Hebron and Rose; and the speaker suggested that it be applied also to the names of garden flowers and ornamental plants, thus avoiding such names as Ilex Aquifolium parvifolia conspicua argenteo-marginata, or, not to take so extreme an instance, Waterer's Holly is infinitely perferable to Ilex Aquifolium var.

Watereri. On this point he commended to the attention of those interested a little tract by Dr. Masters, editor of the London Gardeners' Chronicle, on the " Nomenclature of Garden Plants".