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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 3. 



The roses being identical, Messrs. Booth ielt 

 the honor of their well regulated nursery at stake, 

 and alter some slight warfare in their respective 

 annual catalogues, these gentlemen published a 

 pamphlet on the subject, which was replied to by 

 the Professor in the newspaper. This produced 

 a very bitter and persona! rejoinder from Messrs. 

 Booth, in a second pamphlet, which was distri- 

 buted gratuitously. 



The Professor havingstated that the rose in ques- 

 tion was figured in the magnificent and expensive 

 publication, with colored plates, by the celebrated 

 Redoute, fellow pupil with Audubon, of David 

 the painter, he procured the work and ieit it out 

 lor public exhibition. Redoute's figure wasgene- 

 rally considered identical with Booths' Queen of 

 Denmark, although these gentlemen would scarce- 

 ly allow it. 



A hot war of affidavits, letters of proof, and 

 documents now commenced, the most interesting 

 of which is a letter li'om the distinguished veteran 

 botanist, Thouin, who died in 1826, dated in 1824, 

 which gives some good explanations of the Pro- 

 lessor's strong declaration, and shows that the 

 Belle Courtisanne rose, under this name, was sent 

 by Thouin to the Hamburg Botanic Garden, from 

 whence it was also distributed to many other gar- 

 dens. 



Messrs. Booth hereupon published gratis a 

 most offensive pamphlet, entitled "Victory of the 

 Queen of Denmark Rose, unveiling the motives 

 of the attack of Professor Lehmann." To this the 

 Professor published a cool and well written reply; 

 the friends on each side began to publish also — 

 accusation and retorts were liberally scattered and 

 the plague of party spirit spread far and wide. 

 We do not think, however, it will terminate in a 

 continental war. 



That elegant German writer, Wicland, in his 

 fiction of the history of the people of Abdera, a 

 town in ancient, Greece, relates that a citizen of 

 the town hired an ass; the day being sultry, lie 

 took it into his head during his ride, to dismount 

 from the patient animal, and sit down for a time 

 in the shade of the creature's body. The owner 

 demurred to this proceeding, and demanded addi- 

 tional hire, having, as he stated, only let the ass, 

 and not his shadow. After a warm altercation, 

 both returned to the city and went before the ma- 

 gistrate. The question now became altogether 

 one of party, in which no neutrality was permit- 

 ted, and the whole city was soon divided into two 

 violent sides, one of which obtained the appropri- 

 ate distinctive appellation of jlsses, and the other 

 of Jlsses* shadows. During a popular commotion 

 on this quarrel, the innocent cause of it was torn 

 limb from limb — thus even the shadow of an ass 

 was annihilated, and had not some other question 

 of equal importance been started, which threw 

 this into oblivion, the result would no doubt have 

 been disastrous. We disclaim the slightest idea 

 of an offensive application of the above story; it 

 is enough to show how well those understand the 

 human heart who describe a trifle as sufficient to 

 inflame the bad passions of mankind. 



The highly talented German botanist, Nees Von 

 Esenbeck, writes two letters on this quarrel, which 

 have been published in the sHlemcine. Botanische 

 Zeitung, (General Botanical Newspaper) com- 

 mencing in something like the following lively 

 vein: 



"How much that is beautiful, joyous, and en- 

 dearing has been written and said on the rose; 

 how much that is delightful on its character? how 

 many exquisite ideas has it inspired to be breathed 

 by love?- The beauty of this flower must sink 

 deepest into our imagination, when its appearance 

 forces us to associate with it every feeling that is 

 tender, delicate, and luxurious. How anomalous, 

 how absurd, then, the idea that the rose can en- 

 gender feelings of division and strife. lam con- 

 vinced that in the beautiful manuscript of my 

 young friend Dorinir, 'On the Character and Na- 

 ture, of the Rose,' there is not even the smallest 

 chapter on the fruit of rose as an apple of dis- 

 cord.' 1 * 



It is hardly worth while to read every statement 

 and counter statement in this quarrel, but we be- 

 lieve that Messrs. Booth, the nursery men, must 

 have the best of it, as undoubtedly the excitement 

 has enabled them to sell the greater part of their 

 stock of this rose, as well as of many others ap- 

 proaching to it in character, to enable a compari- 

 son; while the. publishers of Redoute's work on 

 roses have certainly disposed of several copies to 

 persons who have withstood the best newspaper 

 pufls that ever were penned. 



[There have been very many instances, in modern 

 as well as ancient times, of parties being formed, and 

 bitter feuds engendered among countrymen, neighbors, 

 and former friends, for causes not more important, and 

 even less understood, than those from which have ori- 

 ginated the rose factions mentioned above. And most 

 parties agree with those of the roses in another re- 

 spect — that the few knaves who lead, on both sides, 

 may gain by the fend, while the many fools who follow 

 them, are sure to be losers.] 



From the Horticultural Register. 



O.f THE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION OP INDIA 

 RUBBER, AND ITS APPLICATION TO MAN- 

 UFACTURES. 



At the present time, Avhen attention to this sub- 

 ject is so much awakened, we deem an account 

 of it will be of some interest to our genera! rea- 

 ders, particularly as an entirely new and extraor- 

 dinary use for it has been very recently discovered 

 and patented in England. 



The India rubber in the state it is imported into 

 this country, is the concrete juice of the Hevea 

 caoutchouc, orguianensis, aEuphorbiaceousplant 

 which abounds in South America; it is also pro- 

 duced from the Apocyneous plants, as Urceola 

 elastica, of Sumatra, Vahea Madagascariensis, 

 Ficus elastiea, of the East Indies; and from Arto- 

 carpeous ones, as Ficus indica, the Banyan tree 

 also of the East. Indies, Artocarpus incisa, the 

 Bread fruit tree, from the West Indies, and from 

 many trees in Africa. In fact, plants producing it 

 grow in almost all countries in or near the tropics. 

 The produce of these is sometimes equal to nearly 



* The apple was placed by Decandolle in the Rosa- 

 ceous family, from which it is now, however, properly 

 separated. It is classed with others in a distinct order 

 called Pomaceee, from Poma, an apple. The figure of 

 Nees Von Esenbeck, of the rose fruit being an apple 

 of discord is therefore not so far wrong as may appear 

 at first sight. 



