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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nds. N<>29., Jcly19.*56. 



■who patronised It ; and hence the name as applied 

 to the regiment v/bose facings it formed. 



I may incidentally mention that on visiting a 

 cotton mill near Oldham in Lancashire, in 1827, 

 I was surprised to find the word " Pompadour " 

 on a crimson cotton print, and on seeking for an 

 explanation, I was told it was applied to that par- 

 ticular shade of crimson. 



Like the gosling green facings as formerly WOrn 

 by the 66th regiment, it was found too delicate a 

 colour for such a purpose, and too apt to fade and 

 change by exposure to the sun, and consequently 

 was ordered to be done away with. The then 

 colonel of the regiment wished it to be made 

 royal, and substitute blue for the facings ; but 

 not being able to effect this, he resorted to purple 

 as the nearest approach to blue. 



The 4th regiment have no such motto as " Quis 

 separabit." The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards 

 have it, in conjunction with the badge of the 

 Order of St. Patrick, of which it is the motto. 

 It was given as a national distinction to this, as 

 also to two other Irish regiments, the 86th county 

 Down, and 88th Connaught Rangers. 



For the same reason (that of national distinc- 

 tion) the badge of the Order of the Thistle, and 

 its accompanying motto, "Nemo me impune la- 

 cessit," has been permitted to be worn by the fol- 

 lowing Scotch regiments : the Scots Greys, the 

 21st North British Fusileers, and 42nd Royal 

 Highlanders. 



The 42nd Royal Highlanders were originally 

 formed from six independent companies of High- 

 landers that had been raised in 1730 for the pro- 

 tection of Edinburgh, and for police and other 

 local purposes, and from being dressed in black, 

 blue, and green tartans, presented a very sombre 

 appearance, which procured for them the name of 

 "Freieudan Dhu," or Black Watch. These inde- 

 pendent companies were, in 1739, amalgamated 

 into a regular regiment, under the title of the 

 Highland Regiment, and in 1751 was numbered 

 as the 42nd. 



Should this communication meet with approval, 

 I shall have great pleasure in again reverting to 

 the subject. Miles. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COERESPONDBISCE. 



Photographic Exhibition at Brussels. — We last week 

 received a letter from our excellent contemporary, the 

 Editor of La Lumiere, to which, from circumstances, we 

 were unavoidably prevented callinpr attention in last 

 Saturda3''3 " N. & Q." Tlie purport of M. Lagan's com- 

 munication was to announce that, at the public Ex- 

 j hibition at Brussels, which is about to take place under 

 the superintendence and management of the Association 

 for the Encouragement of the Industrial Arts in Belgium, 

 Photography will be one of the leading features. The 

 French photographers will contribute largely ; and as 

 the Exhibition will not be considered complete unless 

 the English Photographers are fairly represented, it is 



hoped that they will entrust specimens of their produc- 

 tions to the manager of the present Exhibition. Com- 

 munications on the subject are to be addressed to M. E. 

 Romberg, 58. Rue Royale a Bruxelles; and Photographs, 

 Photographic Instruments, &c., (which will be received 

 until the 1st of August,) are to be sent to M. le President 

 de I' Association pour l' Encouragement des Arts industriels 

 en Belgique, a ['Entrepot de Bruxelles, Though the notice 

 is short, we hope our photographic friends will avail 

 themselves of this opportunity of showing the Belgian 

 Photographers what England can produce in this new, 

 but most important, branch of Art. 



3aejiIi0iS t0 Miliar eaucrte^. 



The Hoe (2"'» S. i. 471.) — Mr. 3ons Boasb, 

 Penzance, says, " This is a Note, not a Query." 

 But he, at the same time, re-makes it a Query by 

 writing " Elbe Hohe," " Alster Hohe." We write 

 Hohe, or Hoehe, which is then pronounced as a 

 diphthong, the A aspirated. The origin of Hoe 

 may be German (Saxon), but it is one of those 

 words which have suffered many metamorphoses 

 in sound during the lapse of time. Dr. J. L. 



15. Gower Street. 



Holly, the only indigenous English Evergreen 

 (2"'' S. i. 399. 443. 502.) — I have only been able 

 to see the Gentleman s Magazine for 1787, though 

 I have applied at two libraries to which I sub- 

 scribe. 



Hooker and Arnott (^British Flora, edit. 1850, 

 pp. 369. 408.) omit the asterisk (*) with which, 

 at p. xii., they explain that they have branded 

 "the many" plants "that have been or ax'e daily 

 becoming naturalised among us." 



The editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle (Dr. 

 Lindley), G. C. 1856, p. 440. c, writes, "The yew 

 is certainly indigenous ; and we never heard the 

 box-tree suspected of being a foreigner." 



Selby (British Forest Trees, 1842, p. 363.) 

 writes, "The yew is indigenous to Britain." I 

 maintain, therefore, that Algernon Holt Whitb 

 was wrong " in calling the holly our only indigen- 

 ous evergreen, to the exclusion especially of the 

 yew and box;" and there are with me, on the 

 trial of this issue, Hooker, Arnott, Lindley, and 

 Selby. Geo. E. Frbrb. 



Royden Hall, Diss. 



Will Mr. White consider the opinions of Ge- 

 rard, Parkinson, Phillips, Loudon, and Withering 

 as of some value in deciding the question, whether 

 the yew-tree and box are indigenous evergreens ? 

 Phillips, in his Sylvia Florifera, remarks, " The 

 box was formerly much more plentiful in England 

 than now, and gave names to several places, such 

 as Boxhill and Boxley, &c." Evelyn also speaks 

 of it as growing wild, and forming " rare natural 

 bowers." The other authorities speak with the 

 same certainty, with the exception of Loudon, 

 who throws a doubt over box being indigenous, be- 



