258 ON NAMING NEWLY-DISCOVERED PLANTS. 



I had some difficulty in parting them. About the beginning of 

 May they were turned out of doors, but the glasses kept over them. 



In the same number of the Cabinet, I see a mode of propagating 

 plants from single buds. I have reason to know that the last ex- 

 periment of the late lamented T. A. Knight, Esq., was to ascertain 

 if plants could be propagated from a single bud and leaf. His death 

 unfortunately took place before the experiment was fully proved ; 

 but it has since been ascertained that they may be so raised, and 

 even some kinds that do not easily strike in the usual way. If you 

 think the process will be acceptable to your readers, I may make it 

 the subject of another communication. 

 Ludlow, 27th Oct., 1840. 



[We shall feel highly obliged by the favour of the article our 

 correspondent refers to, at an early opportunity. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE II. 



REMARKS ON NAMING NEWLY-DISCOVERED PLANTS, ETC. 



BY B. S., NEWCASTLE, BALLYMAHON, IRELAND. 



As the study of botany is so rapidly on the increase in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, I am induced to call the attention of the numerous 

 readers of the Floricultural Cabinet, and especially those of 

 them who are successful in introducing new kinds of plants, either 

 by importation from other countries, or by hybridization in these, to 

 the generally prevalent practice of naming new plants after indi- 

 vidual persons or places. I consider the method of application 

 usually adopted highly prejudicial to botanical arrangement; but 

 still, I am not for doing away altogether with the name of a person 

 or place affixed to a plant, as I think that object may be attained 

 with, at the same time, a due attention to a systematic botanical 

 nomenclature. Where and how I would admit it I shall now 

 describe. 



When a new genus is discovered, then it may be named con- 

 sistently, either by a reference to its nature, habit, or in compliment 

 to or commemoration of the person by whom discovered or intro- 

 duced; but when a new species, then for it to have applied a 



