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with its former or present popularity in London gardens, but was 

 given because the plant was introduced by London, a partner of 

 a celebrated firm of London florists called London & Wise, who 

 were royal gardeners, and who published several gardening works 

 about the beginning of the eighteenth century. Here are several 

 other names for this old-fashioned flower: — Bird's-eye, garden 

 gate, an abbreviation of kiss-me-love-at-the-garden-gate— a pansy 

 name, if you remember; kiss-me-quick, look-up-and-kiss-me, 

 chickens, pink. Prince's feather. With us I only know of Nancy 

 Pretty, None-so-pretty, and London Pride being used. 



I have referred to linaria cymbalaria being among the plants 

 called Wandering Sailor. It has several other appellations, such 

 as Kenilworth Ivy, because said to grow on the ruins of Kenil- 

 worth ; butter and eggs, properly applied to linaria vulgaris, how- 

 ever; rambling sailor, pedlar's basket, and mother of millions. 

 Saxifraga sarmentosa, formerly mentioned as the mother-of- 

 thousands, is also the spi'der plant and the poor man's geranium. 

 In Somerset I am told that corydalis lutea is also the mother- 

 of-thousands ; while tradescantia virginica is the spider wort, and 

 also, in some parts of the south of Scotland, the life o' man. 



I have heard the charming lotus corniculatus, the bird's foot 

 trefoil named lady's fingers, which belongs to the anthyllis 

 before referred to, but it is also said to be eggs and bacon, from 

 the colour of its flowers. An authority on the subject calls it 

 butter-jags, which he thinks may be a corruption of buttered eggs, 

 but it is difficult to distinguish anything which would account for 

 such a gross corruption. Of course, most of us know the double 

 narcissi — which are butter and eggs and eggs and bacon — as well 

 as their sister flower, which is the codlings and cream. 



When we come into what may be called the names derived 

 from comestibles, we enter a wide field, and a few references to 

 these must conclude this instalment of my subject. I do not 

 suppose any of us here have ever heard the primrose called the 

 butter rose, doubtless caused by its colour, nor the ox-eye or dog 

 daisy the butter daisy, but, of course, many of us will know the 

 flower or leaf -buds of the hawthorn as bread-and-cheese. The 

 common wood sorrel, with us cuckoo's meat, is in some places 

 cuckoo's bread-and-cheese. 



Most young children know well the sourock or sourick, which 



