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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Fruits Cultivated in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London
A'r'the timewhen the first edition of this Catalogue was pub lished, in 1826, it was considered that the progress which had then' been made in determining the qualities and synonyms, and in settling the nomenclature of Fruits, was not such. As to justify the Society in attempting more than a mere list of their names. The subsequent experience of five years has so considerably diminished the difficulties which were then supposed to exist, that the Council have at length found themselves authorized in ordering the preparation of that which is now laid before the public.
The plan which has been adopted on this occasion is as follows; The arrangement of the varieties of each species, and also of the Species themselves, is alphabetical according to the names incommonuse, and not according to those of Botanists. For example, Currants and Gooseberries are placed respectively in the, order of the letters C and G, and not under the collective term Ribes, as was the case in the last Catalogue.
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