COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Quamash — Camassia Fraseri. 

 Pocan — Phytolaca decandra. 

 Puccoon — Sanguinaria canadensis. 

 Tacamahac — Populus balsamifera. 

 Unkum — Senecio aureus. 

 Waukapin, Youkapin — Nelumbo lutea. 

 Whohoo — Ulmus alata. 

 Wicopy — Dirca palustris. 



Perhaps in my enthusiasm for the old-fashioned and 

 familiar plant names I have not laid sufficient stress upon 

 the importance of mastering the Latin names. I have not 

 intended that this eulogy should in any way discount the 

 necessity for exact knowledge along this line, and surely 

 enough testimony has been offered to show what confusion 

 would result were only the vernacular names made use of. 

 My desire is simply that the friendly old names shall not 

 be forgotten, that they shall be sometimes used in the 

 bosom of our own gardens and in those of understanding 

 friends that they and all they have stood for in past ages 

 be not lost to the gardeners that shall come after us. Many 

 of the Latin names, far from being simply difficult and 

 uninteresting, repay a careful study and are quite charming 

 in their meanings and derivations, and while some are 

 truly terrible in their harshness and length, names "which 

 no one can speak and no one can spell," others are quite 

 pleasant-sounding enough to take their places by the side 

 of the softest of the old "by-names." 



The following glossary does not claim to be at all ex- 

 haustive. I have listed only the names that have come my 

 way during intercourse with other gardeners, in conver- 



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