14:8 APPENDIX. 



In the same year as quoted above, 1874, a specimen 

 of Croton Wiesemanni, or to be up to the progress of 

 botanical science, Codiseum Wiesmannianum or only C. 

 Wiesmanni, if the anum termination is found too long, 

 however, the two adjectives are contestable grammati- 

 cally speaking. I mean Wiesmanni or ii andtontm. 

 I was going to say that in 1874, the first prize for the 

 best variegated or foliaged plant was awarded to C. 

 Wiesmann and it deserved it. 



It was a splendid plant, but not handsomer than to- 

 day, only it was younger, terrible thing to be old, I 

 know something of it. 



And what can be said to-day about Camellias ? In 

 1844 or 45, two plants of one variety, I think, 6 Y . Mrs. 

 P. Wilder, came from Boston, hither to Albany, with 

 a bill of $24 for the pair! of Microbs ! No ! but Greeks 

 for all that, microscopic, they had a couple of leaves, 

 each with 2 eyes buds that promised to start in the 

 future. I was offered one by the owner of them for half 

 the price paid $12. I declined, because my means did not 

 afford to buy them, yet they were not handsomer than 

 to-day. Notwithstanding the whimsicalities of the day 

 they are handsomer than one-third, if not more so, of 

 all the plants cultivated to-day, including the Orchida- 

 ceous plants. Old Fogyism 1 hear, I admit that epi- 



