GARDENING. 
thoro ik hly inaccurate and GE e so entirely insular that in speech it 
1 quite unintelligible to foreigners, even to those who are good Latin scholars. As ` 
f the “chief. advantages of the uniform Latin nomenclature of plants is that thus a 
universal or international language is created, it is evident how much has been 
by our prejudiced adherence to a provincial mode of pronunciation. The modern 
stem of ‘pronouncing Latin, long familiar in Dublin usage as far as the vowels 
orned, sanctioned by the Professors of Latin at Oxford and Cambridge in 1872, 
lately. made obligatory for honours at Cambridge, will undoubtedly be universally 
opt d in the future. It represents the actual pronunciation of the words when Latin 
as a living language; and it conforms to Continental usage, so that by its use the 
entific names of ene? are ser: understood i in conversation by educated men of ase. 
Correct METHOD. 
Vowels. 
a, short, as in dpart. a, long, as in psdlmist. - 
ice. B > `, slénder. c, Sn vaged. 
b » thin. mis: e , machinist. 
D om » rótten. ey » voter. 
: I eu powert. Da e E 
is is sounded nearly like i, but the exact sound 
cannot be represented in English. 
Diphthongs. 
88 
nearly as ai in pain. 
au as ou in house. 
Consonants. 
g always hard, as in good. 
