78 THOREAU. 



at the christening of the wild apples? It would ex 

 haust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were 

 used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We 

 should have to call in the sunrise and the sunset, the 

 rainbow and the autumn woods and the wild flowers, 

 and the woodpecker and the purple finch, and the 

 squirrel and the jay and the butterfly, the November 

 traveller and the truant boy, to our aid. 



In 1836 there were in the garden of the London 

 Horticultural Society more than fourteen hundred 

 distinct sorts. But here are species which they have 

 not in their catalogue, not to mention the varieties 

 which our Crab might yield to cultivation. 



Let us enumerate a few of these. I find myself 

 compelled, after all, to give the Latin names of some 

 for the benefit of those who live where English is 

 not spoken, for they are likely to have a world 

 wide reputation. 



There is, first of all, the Wood- Apple (Mains syl- 

 vatica) ; the Blue-Jay Apple ; the Apple which grows 

 in Dells in the Woods (sylvestrivallis), also in Hol 

 lows in Pastures (campestrivallis) ; the Apple that 

 grows in an old Cellar-Holo (JMalus cellaris) ; the 

 Meadow- Apple ; the Partridge- Apple ; the Truant s 

 Apple (Cessatoris), which no boy will ever go by 

 without knocking off some, however late it may be ; 

 the Saunterer s Apple, you must lose yourself be 

 fore you can find the way to that ; the Beauty of the 

 Air (Decus A eris) ; December-Eating ; the Frozen- 

 Thawed (gelato-solutd), good only in that state ; the 

 Concord Apple, possibly the same with the Musketa- 

 quidensis ; the Assabet Apple ; the Brindled Apple ; 

 Wine of New England ; the Chickaree Apple ; the 

 Green Apple (Mains viridis) ; this has many 



