l life. He was a physician of distinction, a
graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and
was retired from the army after World War I with the rank of Major.
After graduation from Columbia, he served his internship in a New York
hospital, then on the medical staff of the State Immigrant Hospital,
Ward's Island. He began private practice in Westchester County, New York
and, later, for many years, served as examining physician with the
Veterans' Administration in Hartford, Connecticut.

It is interesting to know, as told by his son, Hawthorne, that Mrs.
Deming, formerly Imogene Hawthorne, was the youngest granddaughter of
the immortal Nathaniel. It is evident that Dr. Deming, both in private
life and in his public interests, was a strong believer in the value of
good blood-lines.

_John Davidson_

The Nomenclature of Nut Varieties

GEORGE H. M. LAWRENCE, _Bailey Hortorium, Ithaca, N. Y._

This article is intended to introduce to you the International Code of
Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants[6] and to point out the ways in which
that Code serves the interests and needs of members of the Northern Nut
Growers Association.

[6] The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants,
formulated and adopted by the International Botanical Congress Committee
for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants and the International
Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature and Registration at the
Thirteenth International Horticultural Congress, London, September 1952.

Copies of the full text of the Code are available from the Secretary,
American Horticultural Council, Inc., Bailey Hortorium, Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y., (25c postpaid).

The Code as published by the Royal Horticultural Society is a booklet of
about 30 pages, containing an excellent historical introduction by W. T.
Stearn, a summary or abridged version of the Code, and the full text. It
is of necessity somewhat technical in its phraseology, and in places its
jargon is overwhelming. Recently, Dr. John S. L. Gilmour, Director of
the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, and formerly Director of the R. H. S.
Trial Gardens at Wisley, published a very lucid and down-to-earth
interpretation of the principle provisions of the Code. It is reproduced
with permission at the conclusion of this introduction.

The questions asked about the Code include,

"What's it got that earlier codes did not have?"
"What's new about it?"
"