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nounced in degree among Alpines as it is among 

 valley flowers ; there is an aristocracy even in the 

 Alps. 



And how admirable, for the most part, are the 

 names these plants bear ; how befitting the roman- 

 tic character and circumstance which surrounds 

 them. Linaria, Saponaria, Salvia, Ajuga, An- 

 thyllis, Potentilla, Artemisia— what could be more 

 charming ? Are they not a thousand times more 

 suggestive and more aesthetic than their English 

 counterparts— Toadflax, Soapwort, Sage, Bugle, 

 Kidney Vetch, Cinquefoil, Wormwood ? Indeed, 

 I am not sure but that, taking them as a whole, 

 Latin names are not more satisfactory and pic- 

 turesque for every kind of flower — quite apart 

 from the important and simplifying question of a 

 common vantage ground for gardener, scientist, 

 and general public. The anonymous writer of 

 " Studies in Gardening," an admirable series of 

 essays contributed to the Times, pleads persuasively 

 for the use, as far as possible, of English names in 

 both gardening books and papers. He holds — and 

 in so doing he is by no means singular — that " the 

 rage for liatin names has gone so far that you will 

 now sometimes see lilies called lihums " ; he be- 

 moans the gi'owing use of Sedum instead of Stone- 



