and flowers of other climates." The case was not the 

 same among the Romans. Plinj makes it his boast, 

 that of the eight sorts of cherries known at Rome in 

 his time, one was called the Flinian^ in honor of one 

 of the members of his family, who had brought it 

 into Italy. The other seven, also, bore the names of 

 the most distinguished families, including the Julian, 

 w hich was that of the Emperors. The first cherry- 

 trees w ere brought to Rome from Pontus, in Asia- 

 Minor, by Lucullus, after the defeat of Mithridates, 

 who was king of that country. In less than a cen- 

 tury, they had spread themselves over the whole of 

 Europe, — even into the then remote and barbarous 

 island of Britain. The distinguished naturalist to 

 whom I just alluded, also commemorates the good 

 fortune of Pompey the Great, and the Emperor Ves- 

 pasian, in having carried, in their triumphant entries 

 into Rome, on their return from their campaigns in 

 Syria, the Ebony-tree and the Balm of Gilead. 



Modern nations have not, however, been entirely 

 regardless of the services of eminent individuals in 

 this particular. France herself bestowed upon one 

 species of the same fruit, w hich bore, in ancient times, 

 the names of Csesar and Pliny, the scarcely less illus- 

 trious one of Montmorency. She also gave to our " fra- 

 grant weed" its scientific appellation of Nicotiana, 

 in honor of Nicot, her Ambassador in Portugal, who 

 is supposed, in France at least, to have introduced it 

 into Europe, although the merit is attributed, in En- 

 gland, to Sir Walter Raleigh. Her w-riters have 

 gratefully recorded the service rendered to the West 

 of Europe by Busbeck, an Austrian Ambassador at 



