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" aumone " ; even this is too much for the busy 

 Englishman, he can tolerate but one syllable, " alms." 

 If our ancestors curtailed " paralysis " into " palsy," 

 " fidelity " into " fealty," and so forth ; why should 

 an ill-starred gardener be expected to say " Mesem- 

 bryanthemum " when he refers to that thick-leaved 

 plant with a flower that reminds one of a Com- 

 posite ? 



" Quarter Sessions Kose " has a more familiar 

 ring than " Eose des Quatre Saisons "* ; and surely 

 " Pilligorum " has a more homely English sound 

 about it than the classical " Pelargonium " ! 



So " Glory to die John " for the rose " Gloire de Dijon." T. H. 



ISA 



