1880.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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tions, and it is likely that some of the tropica^ 

 collections are also superior. Of Palms alone, 

 there are sixty species in the Missouri Gardens, 

 with nearly a hundred of large growing tropical 

 plants that are rarely seen in any collections. 



If we are then to decide this question, it must 

 only be by defining what we have to decide. If 

 a mere botanical garden as such is generally 

 miderstood, then Cambridge is our decision 

 already stated, — but if horticultural and land- 

 scape gardening features be, — and we really 

 think they ought to be combined with a collec- 

 tion of plants of botanical interest, then the 

 Missouri Gardens would be regarded as a better 

 botanic garden than Cambridge. 



Premium to Mr. Darwin. — The Academy 

 of Sciences of Turin, has awarded Mr. Darwin 

 a premium of about $2,500 for his discoveries 

 in botanical science. Mr. Darwin will appreci- 

 ate it the more as coming from that part of the 

 world. The North of Europe has generally 

 shown the most appreciation of scientific pro- 

 gress. 



iSTEW or Rare Native Plants. — Young 

 botanists may be in hope of finding new plants, 

 or new stations for old ones, even in much ex- 

 plored locations. Dr. Gattinger, of Nashville, 

 has recently found near Nashville, Leaven- 

 worthia stylosa, new, — and Leavenworthia toru- 

 losa, only found before in the barrens of Ken- 

 tucky. As to the old and new locations, a 

 distinguished botanist recently said to the writer 

 that he believed he could yet find more new 

 species in New England than in Colorado. 



Pronunciation of Botanical Names. — 

 L., Baltimore, Md: "How should Deutzia be 

 pronounced? We have always said it as if 

 written Dootzia, but our German gardener in- 

 sists that it is a German name and should be 

 pronounced Doytzia? 



[You are right; the gardener is wrong. It is 

 not a German but a Latin name. It makes no 

 difference whether the name is derived from the 

 "Rooshun or the Prooshun," when it becomes 

 Latin it follows Latin rules. The rule is that 

 every vowel is sounded in a distinct syallable. 

 In this case Deutzia is really De-ootz-i-a ; as a 

 whole the first syllable would be indistinct, and 

 the pronunciation sound as "Dootzia." Jones, 

 in English, is but of one syllable ; but when in a 

 Latin nominative for a plant it would sound 

 Jo-nees-i-a. — Ed. G. M.l 



English Names. — A nurseryman recently 

 showed us an order he had received for a plant 

 of "the great flowered and panicle producing 

 Hortensia." The writer was evidently much 

 opposed to hard latin names, and was badly put 

 about to find a soft and easy one. 



The Waratah. — While we in America 

 sing the praises of our native Rhododendrons, 

 the Australians glory in the Waratah, which 

 with the immense heads of flowers certainly 

 makes no mean rival to the Rhododendron. A 

 new species has been discovered there and 

 named by Baron Von Mueller, Telopea orcades. 



The Whistling Tree. — Colonies and India, 

 says this is Acacia fistula. It appears an in- 

 sect bores the stems in such a peculiar manner, 

 that when the wind blows, the tree whistles. 



The Maiden Hair Tree.— The botanists 

 have determined under the laws of the science, 

 that we must drop Salisburia adiantifolia, and 

 say Ginko biloba when we refer to the Maiden 

 Hair tree. 



Science in Australia.— The Linnaen So- 

 ciety of New South Wales, has taken steps to 

 advance the study of biological science, by af- 

 fording special opportunities for the investiga- 

 tions of the Botany and Zoology of Australia. 

 A "station" is to be established near Baron 

 Maclay's Museum near Sydney, which is to be 

 " open to all students of the male sex." 



Australian Botany.— Mr. R. Fitzgerald, 

 the Deputy Surveyor-General of New South 

 Wales, has issued another part of his admirable 

 work on Australian Orchids. " This " says a cor- 

 respondent " is the fifth decade of an opus in large 

 folio size with colored plates drawn from living 

 specimens, and illustrative of a charming tribe 

 of our vegetation. The work is evidently in- 

 tended to embrace in course of time all the or- 

 chideous plants of Australia, and will greatly 

 facilitate the recognition of many of these lovely 

 species." 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Foliation and Heat. — E. F. H., West 

 Plains, Mo., writes: "In the March number of 

 the Monthly, pp. 87, in answer to ' Inquirer,' 

 Burlington Kansas, you say : ' So far as known, 

 the buds of plants burst into leaf solely from the 

 action of heat on the buds, and the temperature 

 of the earth has nothing whatever to do with 

 the act of foliation. Is this so, with regard to 

 the flowering of our fruit trees ? Will not root 



