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cared for, notwithstanding the " moss" upon it was preposterously coarse, sharp 

 and vicious. At last it leaved and bloomed, a true rosacese indeed, but not a 

 Moss Rose ; just a wild, red raspberry. It was nothing poisonous ! This is 

 one person's experience. The writer can give many more within the circum- 

 scribed range of his own experience. All of them tend to justify the aforesaid 

 " indictment." • 



The next question is what can be done to remove this " bar sinister " from 

 the escutcheon of Horticulture, the oldest in nature and art, whose " base " 

 sustains, whose " border " encircles with a girdle of beauty every other enter- 

 prise of man. Laws applicable to other frauds are inadequate to grapple with 

 this. For long before the ne plus ultra apple fruited, or the " Moss Rose " 

 bloomed, and by so doing furnished the necessary evidence for convicting find 

 punishing, the transgressor is perhaps at the Antipodes, successfully pursuing 

 his nefarious trade in the same " now you see me now you don't " mode. It 

 may be that he is dead, and an ornate monument twelve feet high over his 

 grave to carry down the memory of his many virtues to/uture generations, to 

 evoke their gratitude and emulation. 



The writer is aware that some useful work has been done toward " reform 

 of the nomenclature. This cannot meet the whole case. It may be the " pound 

 of cure," w^hat we want is the " ounce of prevention." Omitting details : what 

 is there to prevent the enacting of a law demanding in every case, as in appli- 

 cation for a patent right of invention, a specification setting forth the distinctive 

 differences and characteristics of the new candidate from every other known 

 member of the floral family ? These differences to be verified by a competent 

 authority, and then sworn to and registered. Such a law to have all the custo- 

 mary penal enactions of heavy penalties for gross frauds. 



The question has its difficulties, no doubt. So has every right that is at- 

 tempted to be protected or is protected against wrong doing. 



Milton, Ont, ♦ S. P. Morse. 



The Grape : An Oriental Legend. — Four travellers, an Arab, a Turk,_ 

 a Greek and a Persian met at a city's gate ; it was decided that one of them should 

 take the combined moneys of the four and purchase for the common stock the 

 food which they needed ; but they differed each from the other as to what food 

 should be chosen ; the Arab insisted that no food was so sweet and nourishing 

 as the agub, while anghar was the food the Persian desired. The Turk said that 

 azum was the only thing which they should eat, while the Greek contended that 

 symphalion was the choicest of all the foods which men could eat. As they 

 thus quarreled one with the other, before their eyes a gardener passed with 

 grapes. "See, agub!" cried the Arab. "No, it is anghar," said the Persian. 

 "This is azum," said the Turk. "That is my symphalion," cried the Greek, 

 and so they ate their grapes in peace. 



