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ends. Lastly, an attention to the genera here named will in- 

 dicate experiments on other species, or, as an example, if the 

 Lychnis viscaria will thus thrive, so might the Chalcedonica. 



Modern botanists may be shocked at some of the antiquated 

 names here adopted ; but the remarks were associated with 

 names acquired before it became the essence of " the lovely 

 science" to change its nomenclature once a year ; and I saw 

 no great necessity for consulting a table of synonimes which 

 might be changed again before this paper was printed. A 

 science of names cannot suffer much by such neglect, as long 

 as there are catalogues ; and it is probable that the majority 

 of readers will still find themselves most at their ease in the 

 fashion which is passed away among those who undertake to 

 regulate the fashion of botany. 



With your permission I will now add a postscript on a 

 subject of an analogous nature, interesting for the same or 

 similar reasons, yet to a somewhat different set of persons ; 

 namely, to the ever-longing and ever-disappointed horticul- 

 turists of cities and towns, whose gardens are a tea-pot or a 

 flower-pot, emulous of the gardens of Adonis, a smoked 

 balcony, a darkened and smoky area, containing a few square 

 yards of grass or gravel, or the somewhat freer, yet still 

 poisonous inclosure of a square. On this, however, I can do 

 little more than suggest, or rather produce, a faulty and im- 

 perfect notice, as a stimulus to those who can do better, and 

 to whom, perhaps, the having cause for blame will, as is 

 common, prove the most engaging inducement. It is true, 

 that professional gardeners are frequently consulted on this 

 subject, by the anxious prisoner of towns longing for the sight 

 of something that resembles the fair face of nature ; and it is 

 equally true, that such advice as they do give is limited, and 

 often worthless. Yet there must be some gardener or horti- 

 culturist who knows incomparably more on this subject than I 

 can pretend to do ; and my end will be accomplished, if some 

 such person will supersede a very bad catalogue by a very good 

 one. If even he shall meet dispraise instead of thanks, he 

 will have the satisfaction of having attempted to multiply the 

 innocent amusements of his race. 



JULY— SEPT., 1829. F 



