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Vol. VI. — No. 161.] Satueday, November 27. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



A Chiapter on Plants and Flowers - - - - 501 

 AVilliam of Wvkeham and Sir William Walworth, by 



Lambert B.liiirking .... - 503 



Plagiarism, by W. Hastings Kelke - - - 504 



The Sister of George III., by Philip S. King - - 505 



Campbell's Imitations, by Henry H. Breen - - 505 



The original Reaping Machine, by Rev. Alfred Gatty - 506 



Minor Notes: — Greek Inscription on a Brass — Pear- 

 tree — St. Luke — Carious Episram — Folkstone — 

 John Doe — The lirse a ."poken Language in America 

 — Remarkable Warlike Invention by a Scotch Shoe- 

 maker—The Duke a Wesley - - - - 507 



Queries : — 



Has a Bishop ever appointed himself ? - . - 508 



Changed Names of London Localities . . _ 508 



Minor Queries: — Bells and Storms — Charity, Seraph 

 of Earth — General — Black Sheep — Lease for Ninety- 

 nine Years — Rubrical Query — The Willow Pattern 



— Deodorising Peat — Queries on Language — 'A;v/«v, 

 &c. — Ricardo's " Theory of Rent," was Sir Edward 



'„ West the Author? — "Between the Saddle and the 



Ground" — Executions in Henry VIII. 's Reign, &c. — 

 William Brand — Sermons against Inoculation — The 

 Gosling Family — Electricity applied to Growth of 

 Trees — Burial-place of Spinoza — Elvaston or Ayle- 

 waston Castle — Patents of Appointment wanted - 508 



Minor Queries Answered : — Inscriptions in Churches 



— " Plurima, pauca, nihil" — Numismatic Works — 

 Gabriel Harvey — De Vita Functorum — Velitations 

 and Pickerings — National Armorials — "The grand 

 Concern of England " - - - - - 510 



, Replies : — 



William Penn was a Slaveholder, by T. Westcott - 512 



" Cross and Pile " ------ 513 



Mummy Wheat and Maize - - - - - 513 



Photographic Notes and Queries - - - . 514 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Bishop Juxon's Account 

 of vendible Books in England — Wellington : why 

 chosen as the Duke's Title — Charles Inglis, first 

 Bishop of Nova Scotia — Aiioquin — Pepys charged 

 ■with Treason — Passage in the " Two Gentlemen of 

 Verona" — Royal Arms in Churches — Roman or 

 British Roads— Revolving Toy — Parsley-bed— Quex- 

 park— Highlands and Lowlands — Muffs worn by Gen- 

 tlemen—Venom of Toads — Passage in " Keligio 

 Medici" — Monument at Wadstena — Derivation of 



" Pic-nic " — Dr. P. Browne's MSS., &c Newspaper 



Extracts — Descent of the Queen from John of Gaunt 



— Cook of Almanacs — Elizabeth, Equestrian Statue 

 of — Pictures of Queen Elizabeth's Tomb — The Use] 



of Tobacco by the Elizabethan Ladies, &c. - - 515 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 521 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 52'2 



Notices to Correspondents .... 522 



Advertisements ....-- 523 



V0L.VI. — No. 161. 



A CHAPTER ON PI,A>'TS .\ND FLOWERS. 



Christians in times past loved to think that as 

 all created nature shared in man's fall, so did she 

 sympathise in his Redemption ; that she hailed with 

 glad welcome the nativity of the Saviour ; and 

 that, after the incarnate Deity had risen and as- 

 cended on high, inspired with a mysterious joy, she 

 looked up once more, and 



" The lonely world seem'd lifted nearer heaven." 



As Adam of St. Victor sings : 



" Mundl renovatio 

 Nova parit gaudia 

 Resurgent! Domino 

 Consurgunt omnia." 



Then the flowers " gladlier grew," shed a grateful 

 fragrance to their risen King, and with silent as- 

 pirations whispered of love, and peace, and hope. 



I ought properly to commence with the beau- 

 tiful Legend of the Tree of Life, remembering, iu 

 the words of Evelyn, that — 



" Trees and woods have twice saved the whole 

 world ; first by the Ark, then by the Cross ; making 

 full amends for the evil fruit of the tree in Paradise by 



That which was borne on the Tree in Golgotha." — 



Silva, p. 604. : York, 1776, 4to. 



And of Calderon : 



" Arbol donde el cielo quiso 

 Dar el fruto verdadero 

 Contra el bocado primero, 

 Flor del nuevo Paraiso." 



The ancient botanists have handed down to us 

 many an allusive name and legend, and even yet 



" Many a sign 

 Of the great Sacrifice which won us heaven. 

 The woodman and the mountaineer can trace 

 On rock, on herb, and flower." 



Wood Walk a7id Hymn, by Mrs. Hemans. 



Thus we have Holy Rood Flower, Passion 

 Flower, St. Andi-ew's Cross, St. James's Cross, 

 Gross of Jerusalem, Cross of Malta, Cross Flower, 

 Cross Wort, Cross Mint, Crossed Heath. 



