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be well; the roots don't stcip. . . ." (Page 441, column 



1 agree with "Onlooker" that the New \ ork Botanic 

 Garden is, from a horticultural standpoint, disappoint- 

 ing, and I should think frcim a botanical standpoint 

 €qually disappointing. 



Jn his interesting remarks rel.ating to the botanist 

 and his habit of plant name changing, une asks him- 

 self whether those remarks or arguments indicate 

 that plant naming is complete and that the first name 

 a plant receives it must stand or fall by it, and that 

 classification stands for nothing, but that a plant's 



i\\'\\ from fallu-r tn son and 

 sec' if it is named correctly, 

 Law (if the Medes and Per- 



name must be handed d' 

 no attempts be made tn 

 but must stand as the 



sians. 



This brings us to that interesting nnte on the "Bos- 

 ton Ivy" or "Ampelopsis \ eitchii," nne asks where 

 did those names arise. The latter, we know or be- 

 lieve, that the firm of James \eitch & Sons, London. 

 England, named and ].)laced it u])on the market some- 

 where about 1879 and that it was reviewed in "The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle (English)" in 1S80. If the botan- 

 ist classifies this plant and calls it "V'itis inconstans" 

 it indicates that the botanist is attempting to level 

 the irregtilar work done by the nurserymen when he 

 attaches his own name to a plant never before on 

 the market, with advertising the sole idea. As for the 

 name "Parthenocissus," "Onlooker" woidd have us l)e- 

 lieve that this is a new name. I can well remember 

 in my nursery days in Eurii])e that most of the Ampe- 

 lopsis were known as Parthenocissus and I think most 

 gardeners with any kn-o\vledge at all knew that and 

 any one acquainted with horticulture at all knows and 

 acknowledges that most |:lants have a synonym, and 

 some more than one. 



Partlu'iiucissiis quinqncjolia, "Onlooker" will find is 

 the synonym for Vitis qiii)U]uefolia the "< )riginal 

 Creeper" of the .American hedgerows known as Am- 

 pelopsis hcderacea, while Ampelopsis I'citehii is known 

 as Parthenoeissus Iricuspidata or iritis inconstans. 



I really think that an able pen as the "Onlooker" 

 has could be turned to a more useful work than bring- 

 ing up this old, old argument relating to the botanist 

 and strike out in the Ime of atteniptmg to p'lit a stop 

 to and discourage the use and abuse of ccjnunon names 

 for plants which every enthusiast and catalogue com- 

 piler changes at will ; also to encourage the use of the 

 bot.inical names of ])lants in the press generally. 



"Bv.ST.\NDEK." 



HENRY A. DREER EXHIBIT AT PANAMA. 



The exhibit of Henry A. Dreer. Inc., of I'hiladcl]il)ia, 

 i'a., in the I'alace of Horticulture, Panama-Pacific In- 

 ternational Exposition, .^an Francisco, covers an area 

 of 74.T square feet and com,iris2s a collection of the 

 choicest sitecies and hybrids of tropical water lilies in 

 (iiltixation, consisting of the fol. owing varieties, known 

 as day-bloo!.iing tender water li.ies : 



Xyiiiphaea Daubeyana, N . Grossherzog Ernst l.udwii^, 

 A". C. IV. Ward, X. Pulelicrrima, X. Zanzibaricnsis. 

 X . Zanzibaricnsis acurea. and X. Zanzibarier,sis rosea. 



The following;, known as night-blooming tender water 

 lilies; X ymphaea Bissetti. X. Dcntata M ai^nitica. X. 

 Dentata .Supcrba. X . Dcvonieusis. X . frank 7 release, 

 X . George Iliister. X. Kei^'ensis. X. O'Marana, and A". 

 Rubra rosea. 



Among the miscellaneous aquatics found in the collec- 

 tion may be mentioned; Acorns Japonica I'ariegdta, 

 Aponogeton Distachyon, Cyperiis Papyrus, Eichornia 

 Aziirea, Eichornia Crassipes Major, Lininoeharis Unm- 

 buldti, and Tlnilia IJealbata. 



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