October -n, 1863. 3 



JOTJENAL OF HOETICTTLTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



for the sake of men, which I fear would take place if we 

 accepted gardeners' pronunciation. I feel sure that well- 

 educated gardeners (and I am pleased to notice how these 

 are increasing), wUl say Amen to my remarks, and feel that 

 I am not wi-iting anything in the least degree offensive to 

 the gardener class. At the same time, I fear the godfathers 

 of new plants little think of the trouble and perplexity they 

 are causing the gai'dener world by giving theii' floral children 

 so frequently names hard to be pronounced. Even the 

 French Eose-growers might show a little mercy to English 

 gardeners in tiiis respect. — Wiltshire Eectok. 



PEONUNCIATION OF GL.IDIOLITS. 



In a communication which you did me the honour of in- 

 serting, at page 250, 1 attempted to justify j'our pronouncing 

 Gladiolus with the accent on the second syllable ; and the 

 authority on which I grounded my opinion was s, rule given 

 in an edition of the Eton Latin Grammar by T. W. C. 

 Edwai-ds. The correctness of that rule has not been im- 

 pugned by " D.," nor by any other man that I am aware of. 

 will your coiTespondent undertake to prove its falsity, or 

 that it is inapplicable to the word Gladiolus ? UntU that is 

 done I must presume that the rale stands good, and that, 

 according to it, the accent will fall on the antepenult, which 

 is the second syllable in the word, and the word wiU be 

 correctly accented as you have marked it, Gliidi'-olus. 



For what reason does " D." throw the accent back on the 

 first syllable ? (By-the-by, at page 210, he calls it glad, at 

 page 296 he accents it glade.) I infer that this is his rule : 

 all derivatives foUow the accent of their respective roots. 

 Let us see. We will suppose he has a seedling Eose, the 

 desii-e of every eye, and he names it " Desiderium." Now, 

 this word comes from desi'dero, is he prepared to pronounce 

 it desi'-derium ? or in memory of a friend departed, he calls 

 another " memoriam," will he pronounce the word mem'- 

 oriam because it comes from memor? Would he say ex'- 

 iierat, hab'-tierat, mu'lieris ? Would not most persons 

 follow the rule given by Edwards, and, in each case, place 

 the accent on the antepenult ? Let us bear in mind that 

 the question is not as to the quantity of each syllable in 

 Gladiolus, but on which syllable shall the accent fall. My 

 authority has been given, let " D." produce his, and if his 

 prevail, I will cheerfully bow to it, and retui'n to the pro- 

 nunciation for which I stood corrected twelve years ago, 

 and again say Glad'-iulus. But the barbaric saddle is put 

 quite on the wrong horse. 



As you have some ambitious "Latiners" among your 

 young gardeners (page 63), you may not think me out of 

 place if I quote a few more sentences from Edwards' preface 

 on Quantity and Accent. "By Quantity we aa-e to understand 

 the time actually devoted to the enunciation of a syllable 

 — uttered quickly, it is said to be short ; slowly, long. By 

 Accent, a peculiar inflexion and stress of voice laid upon 

 some one syllable of a word. In Latin, the accent falls 

 either upon the penult or the antepenult of words : hence 

 it follows that in all words of two syllables the stress must 

 be on the fii-st syllable. It would, no doubt, have been 

 extremely amusing to the ancient Greeks and Eomans to 

 hear a word pronounced with the accent on the fifth or sixth 

 syllable from the end, as it sometimes is in English, when in 

 their respective tongues the antepenult, or third syllable 

 from the end, was the very farthest from the terminational 

 syllable that the accent was ever removed." 



As I intend not to return to the subject, you might wish 

 to ask me how I would pronounce the word, I say Glade'- 

 olus, not Gladeye'-olus. By this method, whilst the accent 

 is correctly placed, the " i " is not made long in quantity. 



I trust that at least Mr. Beaton (Is he an N.B. ?) will for- 

 give me for preferring the " ee " to the " eye." — S. D. S. 



THE APPLICATION OF GUANO WATEE TO 

 HOT-TV ATEPv PIPES. 



Would your correspondent Mr. D. Thomson give more 

 precise information as to the use of guano as recommended 

 by liim in his useful and suggestive article on "Insects 

 and the Atmosphere of Hothouses " in yoiu' Joiu-nal of 

 October 13th ? He merely says, " I mixed up a small potful 

 of Peruvian guano and applied it regularly to the pipes, 

 ite." Is the giiano to be mixed with water only or with 

 water and soil, and in what proportion, in what quantity, 

 and how often applied ? — Countey Cukate. 



[In the case of the vinery, to which reference was made in 

 my paper on this subject, the guano was applied at about 

 the rate of 1 lb. of Periwian guano to four gallons of water. 

 There was no soil used. It was applied regularly for three 

 weeks. This, as stated, was for the destruction of a ten-ible 

 attack of red spider ; but when the object is simply to 

 impart strength to vegetation it is suifieient to colour the 

 water with the guano. 



In applying it regularly to our- Pine-pits, where there are 

 lai'ge old-fashioned pij^es having a flat surface, saucers are 

 set on the pipes and the water put into them instead of the 

 pipes. The saucers are fiUed up with clear water fr-equently 

 till the guano-charged water previously put into them runs 

 over on to the siu'face of the pipes, and this is continued 

 tin guano is again added to the water in the saucers and 

 the same process continued. In this case 4 ozs. to a gallon 

 of water is perfectly safe. — D. Thomson.] 



Select Oechidaceous Plants. — The sixth Part of this 

 beautiftil serial is now published. It contains -4.crides 

 Wflliamsii, Dendi'obium Dalhousieanuni, Oneidium sarcodes, 

 and Cattleya superba. Pour more contrasting plants, yet all 

 lovely, could not be brought together from among the plants 

 of the genus. The plates and the letter-press ai-e all that 

 can be desired. 



FAILURES IN BLOOMING GLADIOLI. LILIUM 

 LANCIFOLIUM, .4ND AM-ARYLLIS. 



I HAVE to request yoar advice regarding some bulbs which 

 I have failed in blooming this year. I have not seen in 

 the Gladioli here the disease that has been so much com- 

 plained of elsewhere ; liut having a number of them in pots 

 I have found that a few of them have entu'ely rotted, and 

 have left some quite healthy offsets. I have met with the 

 same calamity in several classes of the bulb family. Can 

 there be any fault in the treatment ? 



I should also like to know what can be done with some 

 expensive Lancifolium Lilies and Amaryllis, which, though 

 not yet beguming to fade, are yet showing no symptoms of 

 bloom. Should I nov,- let them become dry and go to rest, 

 or, by keeping them moist and warm, can the season be 

 prolonged with them ? — A. W., Belfast. 



[^Gladiolus. — We suspect the drainage in the bottom of 

 the pots has not been suifieient, or that by worms or some 

 other cause its efficiency has been destroyed, and that, as a 

 consequence, stagnant water about the roots of yom- Gla- 

 dioli has caused them to decay. The healthy offsets which 

 have been produced are an effort of nature to perpetuate the 

 plants, examples of wliich ai'e often met with when the 

 pai'ent is from some fatal cause destroyed. It is, however, 

 by offsets or by the production of fres'n bulbs at the expense 

 of the parent that the Gladiolus perpetuates cjad multiplies 

 itself. When Gladioli are grown in pots the drainage 

 should be- most carefully and efiicientlr performed, as all 

 bulbous plants that laake this fleshy root are very impatient 

 of stagnant water. The soil in which they shoiild be potted 

 should be rich, but not gi'ossly so, and rather light in 

 texture than otherwise. They reqnii-e during their growing 

 and blooming season a plentiful supply of water, but they 

 will never withstand with impunity a wet puddley condition 

 of the soil arising from insuflicieut drainage or any other 

 caiise. After they are done blooming the amount of water 

 must be gradually decreased tiU the soil becomes dry. This 

 is to imitate as nearly as possible the wet and dry seasons 

 to which the plant is exposed in its native habitat. 



Lilium lancifolhm!. — It is presumed that these have shed 

 then- leaves by this time. The proper way to manage 

 them after they .are done flowering is to gra,dua]ly withdraw 

 water fr-om the root till, by the time they have shed their 

 leaves, the soil in which they ai-e growing becomes compara- 

 tively dry, biit not mealy dry, so to speak ; wc have always 

 found the bulbs in a more fresh and healthy condition when 

 just kept a little moist all winter than when allowed to be- 

 come very dry. They can be wintered anywhere where frost 



