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are probably some who find the three latter as hard to pronounce 
correctly as we do the two former names. 
This brings us face to face with the difficulty of discovering the true 
sound of the letters in foreign words, but all that is wanting is a ready 
means of access to information on the subject, and a desire to learn on 
our part. The number of sounds really different from those which we 
ourselves use is fewer than is imagined, and still fewer are difficult for 
our tongues to pronounce, at least approximately. Absolute accuracy in 
allthe nice shades of intonation which sometimes occur is out of the 
question, and besides quite unnecessary.* 
In conclusion, then, I will sum up the system I propose for the 
pronunciation of such words as Lachenalia and Grabowskii. Let the 
vowel-termination have the sound already assigned to itin Latin words, 
(according to the reformed scheme,) and let the body of the word be 
pronounced as nearly as possible the same as in the language from which 
it is derived. This, however, is rather an idealto be aimed at than a 
result to be attained, but it is not less worthy of pursuit than the far 
more unattainable ideal, in such cases, of a uniform Latin or a uniform 
English pronunciation. 
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BY EDWARD W. BADGER, F.R.H.S. 
[Continued from page 278.} 
SEASONABLE HINTS FOR AUTUMN. 
The gardener is unceasingly called upon to exercise forethought. 
Scarcely an operation is performed by him the effect of which is imme- 
diate ; in nearly all he does he has ‘‘ to labour and to wait” for results. 
Whether he tills the ground, sows seeds, hybridises, grafts—whatever he 
does, he is dependent on the future for the fruition of his work. He 
cannot be successful in his pursuit unless he is always looking forward: 
hence moralists have seen that the work in which he is engaged is a 
good school for the training and development of his better nature. No 
part of his occupation is usually more pleasurable than the anticipatory 
work of autumn and winter. This is the time of year when he makes 
alterations in the arrangement of his beds, when he lays his plans for 
removing defects or supplying deficiencies with which previous seasons 
have made him acquainted. It is the time when he selects bulbs and 
early flowering plants for the adornment of his beds and borders, when 
the renovating spring time once more arrives and vegetation enters 
again on its annual period of active growth. Itis also the time for the 
careful uplifting and re-planting of fruit and other deciduous trees and 
* The nonsense which bas appeared on this topic in several periodicals is 
amusiny. Those who know little about it generally instance the German ch as a 
g eat stumbling-block ; but, with strange fatality, they always quote as an 
example the word Fuchsia. Now it happens that in that word the ch has exactly 
the sound of k, and as a botanical name it should be pronounced Lddksia, 
