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■' I humbly think it would be a retrograde day in horticul- 

 ture if gardeners' pronunciation of the names of flowers 

 was received by the classically educated as correct;" and, 

 again, more especially on these words, " Surely it is right in 

 tills, as in aU instances, to endeavour to raise men to the 

 correct standai-d, rather than sink the standard for the 

 sate of the men." I honoured " D.," of Deal, much for re- 

 fusing to accept as the right pronunciation of a flower one 

 which, as -las been proved, was classioaUy wrong, although 

 the name jf Mi-. Beaton (now, alas ! the late) was brought 

 as an argument in its defence. 



" G." wiU also do me the favour to notice, that I spoke of 

 the four cases of very bad pronunciation as being " extreme 

 cases," and, therefore, great exceptions to the regular rule. 

 Thej' had amused me, and I thought would amuse and not 

 offend any reader of The Journal of Horticultuee. 

 They axe perfectly true, and, of course, I did not ask any 

 one to endorse my anecdotes, only my arguments. I can 

 also assure " G." I was not quizzed by my " Johnny Bottle " 

 friend. He was an old man, and once in my own employ ; 

 in better days he had been gardener to a near relative of a 

 Peer. He was a vei-y good gardener, though in book matters 

 nfrie\'Ously ignorant. He seemed amused with the name, 

 but spoke it, I am sure, in utter ignorance. 



As an instance in an opposite direetion, let me give " G," 

 another bit of my experience. I was a few years ago looking 

 over a very good garden with the gardener. It was his own 

 creation o-it of a piece of flat pastiu-e land. I was delighted 

 to hear his most coiTect pronunciation of all names. In one 

 instance he, of his own accord, gave me the Greek word 

 correctly pronounced, from which our English name, he said, 

 was derived. On remarking upon this man's wonderfully 

 correct pronunciation to one of his fellow gardeners, he 

 assured me that he was in this respect the en\'y of all his 

 gardener friends. 



Let me add as a word of encouragement to young, very 

 young gardeners, that this man I speak of began life as a 

 servant boy in a village. 



In conclusion, let me assure "G." that there lives no man 

 fonder of gai-deners than myself. Many an hour's chat do I 

 get with them when I can, and I wish them well, and never 

 more truly was I their friend than when urging them to 

 a correct pronunciation, to which many attain, to which 

 some never attain. " G." will oblige me by noticing my 

 words, " I am writing nothing the least degree oifensive to 

 the gardener class " — words by which I meant that my object 

 was to do good. — Wiltshibe Kector. 



POETRAITS OP PLAIS^TS, FLOWERS, AND 

 FEUIT. 



Staueanthera gkandifolia (Large-leaved Stauranthera). 

 — Nat. ord., Cyrtandraceae. Linn., Didynamia Angiospermia. 

 Herbaceous stove plant. Native of limestone rocks 2000 feet 

 high," at Moulmein. Flowers white, tinged with purple. 

 Blooms in August. Promises to increase readily from cut- 

 tings. — (Botanical Magaiine, t. 5409.) 



Gap.denza octomera (Eight-parted Gardenia). — Nat. ord., 

 Eubiaceff. Linn., Pentandria Monogynia. Shrubby plant. 

 Native of Fernando Po. Flowers wMte, tinged with green ; 

 lip eight-segmented; tube eight-sided. — (Ibid., t. 5410.) 



MicoNiA pulverulenta (Ploccose Miconia). — Nat. oi-d., 

 Melastomaoese. Linn., Decandria Monogynia. Introduced 

 by Messrs. Veitch & Son. Native of Pera. Leaves beau- 

 tiftd, dark green, tinged with blue, and finely reticulated. — 

 (Und.. t. 5411.) 



Webbia pinifolia (Pine-leaved Webbia). — Nat. ord., Com- 

 positoe (Vernoniaceae). Linn., Syngenesia aequalis. Cool 

 gxeenhouse plant. Native of country between Cape Town 

 and Natal. Flowers purple, blooming in August. " Pro- 

 bably wiU bear the open an- in summer, and be grown in 

 clumps, or even as a bedding-out plant." — (Ibid., t. 5412.) 



FtTGOsiA cuNEiFOEMis (Wedge-leaved Fugosia). — Nat. 

 ord.. Malvaceae. Linn., Monadelphia Polyandria. Native of 

 seashore in Du-k Hartog's Island, West Australia. Flowers 

 white, with dark crimson blotch at base. — (Ibid., t. 5413.) 



Bo3e, Madame Falcot. — A yellow Tea variety, deep- 

 coloured and beautiful. — (floral Magazine, pi. 169.) 



Petunia, Mes. Smith. — Baised by Messrs. Smith, Dul- 



wich. Magenta -ooloiu-ed, white -margined, and white- 

 centred; very striking. — (Ibid., pi. 170.) 



Gladiolus, Chakles Davis. — Raised by Mr. Standish, of 

 Ascot and Bagshot. Eeceived a certificate from the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society. Scarlet, picked out with pm-ple and 

 white.— (IHd., pi. 171.) 



AsTELMA (Gnaphalium) ezimium. — A very br illian t 

 Everlasting from the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by 

 Messrs. Henderson, Pine Apple Place. Crimson calyx, and 

 orange anthers. — (Ibid., pi. 172.) 



Deutzia ceenata floes pleno. — This double -flowered 

 Deutzia was introduced by Mr. Fortune fi-om Japan. A 

 dwarf hardy shr-ub. Flowers white, tinged with pink. — 

 (Florist and Po7>iologist, ii., 153.) 



Nectarine, Victoria. — Eaised by Mr. Elvers, by ferti- 

 lising the Violette Kative with pollen from the Stanwick. 

 As we said in September, the fruit " has aU the merits of 

 the Stanwick, with none of its defects." It is a delicious 

 fruit, in perfection during the middle of September. — [Ibid., 

 160.) 



LABOTJR AND LABOUEEES IN IRELAND. 



In answer to several inquiries, I would say that circum- 

 stances have led me to keep back in the meantime, as some- 

 thing good in the backgi-ound, the account of some more 

 places in Ireland I saw on my hurried visit. The maimer 

 in which these sketches hare been received has been to me a 

 source of pleasure not unmixed with sorrow, the sorrow being 

 owing to something Uke an undercurrent of belief, that the 

 pictm-es of improvement and comfort were too rose-tinted to 

 be real. Some friends tell me I should have gone to this and 

 to that place, and then I should not have faUed to have seen 

 misery, idleness, starvation, wretchedness, and hovels not fit 

 for pigs to live in. Well, this may be aU too true, but I hope 

 it will have disappeared before I have the chance of having 

 another tour in Ireland. Perhaps I was fortunate in seeing so 

 much of industry and comfort, and I spoke as I saw — not but 

 that I witnessed some miserable dwellings, and a few shiver- 

 ing workmen who were vainly " asking for leave to toil ; " 

 but, unfortunately, I had seen more than enough of such 

 misery in Scotland and England too, and too often unac- 

 companied with that sympathy and willingness to help each 

 other which has long been a prominent feature among the 

 poorest in Ireland. That labourers in Ireland could be as 

 intelligently active as their brethren in England, when any- 

 thing like similar inducements were presented to them, was, 

 however, the greatest of aU anomalies. One fi-iend in- 

 sinuated that what was said of the working man at Strafifan 

 must have been all a myth borrowed from Cloudland — in fact, 

 said as much that the place could only have an " any habi- 

 tation " in my own imagination ! Strange, indeed, that the 

 industrious Irishman in England could be nothing but a 

 tattered, lazy, misworker in his own land, with children 

 crowding around him demanding his every energy ! True, 

 I never should imagine that the man who squatted in a 

 chimneyless hut, and worked his long dreary hours for from 

 6<i. to 9d. a-day, could even be expected to put forth the 

 energy of the man who was fairly paid for his labour. On 

 this account I was one of those that delighted in emigration 

 as the chief means for raising the wages of the working 

 man that stayed at home, and yet making work cheaper for 

 the landlord and the farmer, by the superior quality and 

 greater quantity of the work performed. There is no use 

 in mincing the question. Where there are not the means 

 for building up bone and muscle, there can be no energy for 

 contmuous laboui-. Low wages are, therefore, generally 

 synonymous witlj dear high-priced work. Emigration, which 

 in moderation would thus have been a blessing, if continued 

 long at its present rate will tm-n a blessing into a curse, 

 by depriving the land of its chief labour power. It is 

 high time that those who for their own purposes have traded 

 in Irish discontent, and the owners and livers by the land, 

 should arouse themselves and present inducements to their 

 labouring brethren to remain at home. The Marquis of 

 Waterford at a large agricultiuul meeting stated, "That 

 large farmers should encourage more field labour. He would 

 be happy to give cottages for labourers, if his tenants would 

 give them work." Let such work be judiciously given and 

 remunerated as it ought to be, and then, but then only, wUl 



