1842. } 
THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
A6Y 
st published, price 6s. cloth 
HE HAND. “BOOK suet CHEMISTRY ; with a 
roreime Index of Re te - CauNTER, Esq, 
London: W. 8. Orr & Co. Ww. & R. Grain Edinburgh. 
fhe Gardeners’ Chrontcle, 
‘SATURDAY, JULY 16, 
1842. 
MEETINGS IN THE EASON WES, 
Horticultural : P. = 
Tuesday + + s+ Floricultural ae RB 
Satur rs ae Royal Botanic . oa. 
Counrry Snows.—July 21, Hoddesdon Cottagers*, “ee, Spilsby. 
We have for some years had much at heart the 
— “ Englis ish names hy! all our Garden and 
ard yo as Se 
e hav 
pasar ne “onside i 
en dishearten the apparently insuperable 
ea sak, cd the improbability of our suc- 
tablishing a system of names — agree- 
able ue “eon in u No one, in fact, except he 
who ea tried the sephininalk is aware of the nature 
of the t 
S 
2 
dif. 
3 ome yonservations 1 in the last Number of the Quar- 
terly Rev set 7 re article called the rt ie ae ta a 
sate en by a scholar an 
am 
we sates well acquainted with Sd pied 
now are us a pesca the topic. The wri says:— 
“‘ Before we ee  bataniats, 
nomenclatures. As 
one and = extreme 
that they will scare the majority vader this balitionn: and 
world from taking any gr 
; Metropolitan 
” or ‘Yellow Peri ” When, 
to two thousand 
e@ be some difficulty 
© te. for every new upstart ; 
rt 
a 
as ‘ Clncdgeoucaape 
Queen Carnation Y though 
e oint to the <ann tt 
their respective a 
Linneeus 
a EF 
o give it some simple E: 
1 
in 
- glow description of 
_But what are mete to the pollopostemo 
s of Wachendort, 
seater name of i2tactepot- 
_ more sloadiedl mas of 
symum Perofisky 
‘ — like the sain Greeeu 
. Spermagoraiolekitholakanopolides, 
holi 
When one has nothing elseto do.’ — 
_As to poetry ctl to immortalise a modern bouquet, 
_ it is utterly hopeless; and if o abr ivators expect to 
ei n to — te 
osse, and 
ie 
ee 
’ and ‘ Honeysuckle,’ and | Bindweed, 
Lane smocks,’ and ‘Ragged d Robin,” and 
“As na oa ‘at present, the ordinary amateur is 
liged to give ie "the whole matter in bigs a a ied 
tatisted with the false ntitie 
ener 
ar ne9 insu 
"| sage 
He th 
i ake 
tzi 
We poe 
of this 
ration. 
ie 
is 
mt 
names 
benefit from 
r raceme 
called Wistaria; the new 
paste eee heen ac pretty little 
= mages is —— 
n books ; 
tists she “follies of a 
eral improvement in w 
some — word, Pom Pipe-stem, o 
be substituted fo 
a Sc should a a wor 
cou 
wi wish B ieoro of our correspondents oh voaaiiee its n 
Baers ar eng 
_‘ High-s sounding words our worthy gardener gets, 
And at py ak to Min yosdra te a mesa 
ere 
ium calls 
ws where Pt grew.’ 
ded, 
temisia gro 
confusion worse confoun: our botanists 
8 
alifornia annual * Bnothera i is 
red Hemimeris, 
ts third a esgnation, an Alonsoa ; 
hau 
might spend the morn 
present state of botanical 
in the first Place, remark, ba the one 
8 exagger 
inished beg 
Abia h t in} 
oa ever in ‘aah although they are ¥ ae — 
d it is no a fair 
"word as And 
ical 
pe r So ee— 
re bes in the United Mate ge to 
se 
the substitution of English for eg ai ? 
English nomenclatur all 
a great advantage, we free aly admnit 
like Andromeda as ad 
nglish. We 
o 
wets 
try; a < agree 
as the — bar to fey —s of 
ong w are, we 
ey 
Ay Colea by Reirei, Mich. 
a cr by Con e-head, 
oe to say; 
he public 
ete, now 
Perea 
ee ce? ay 
to tak 
mpestris 
-soon; and I a 
tig 7 of the publi = pes pe 
use th = 8 ilkcon 
scientific name ae man 
rm a common 
for it.” 
i Bagh 
siiee us, ous tene to select a pas- 
u will find an attempt at a standard English 
very ee Seow, ae ——_* be aoe 
are are generally 
mt the meaning 
| the effect of the operation. 
| pruning for all Everg 
la, ahah, whe 
d derive | 
it far hs capable of resisting 
das eve the urable 
toi 
Bi one locality, you 
d, 
a, in others a Meal of 
,as are site i modal to U. m 
er to ape 
n Name, and s' 
Ff ‘or the resul 
vi of the Horticultural 
Be tober, me donot put forth se ee) He ample ope 
as our own, but as those of an extremely sensible man, 
to whom we mentioned our project g attempting a 
mais English nclature. 
e part of such a plan would n y be 
Femme of two-thirds at of the names now 
in and how little encourag' t be. ex- 
ted at respect, althou i 
-& 
of wit a recognised 
waxes fainter and fainter. 
ness of indivi 
the re 
and thei 
arous nomenclature, we fear that w 
can hoid out e for bet 
Th rh t4! 32,2 
+ 
is no apparent en of php to be caught ay of 5 5 
and as for harmony of opinion. that at 
leant 3 is to be met with aly in Cy mito of ig 
THe period at which the common erase oa be 
pruned is one of those subjects abou ch there is 
materially influen 
For instance, there are those who advocate autumn 
reens ; 
not ap j 
eS ae — 
tans dan- 
ger from severe ode of reasoning is cor- 
rect. Fae s itso when Evergreens are grown in 
climat 
1 Bal 7 
It 15 to 
Pp 
greens are neh ve countries mach wete than our 
own. The n Laurel is from 
Portugal Laurel fi from Portugal an 
lyrea «fron the t. of the weep oe 8 and the 
sae the Ate, the Ec erp een id wibery 
more, fr simnilas-elppates. bat such trees 
par to severe fr 
hk Py Fil Be. 
VU £4yCi~ 
succeed ex wemeély hot 
effec ct of ripening the brea pay 
Se 
found in reel in this coun 
Pig 
rag a 
betie an 
a 
| proportion to the quantity of fluid it contains. 
Autumn prunin 
ivergreens, then, is positively 
cold climates ; for the adverse ac- 
er than the favourable ef- 
a ia-eens 
runing, the trees 
se the — produced late 
oa zs to 
Upon the ite: = g tif is so be recommended 
for pruning Ev the worl 
the Laurel hedges more  benatital Ps in Sictier ie 
than at Dropmore ; and the practice of Mr. Frost, who 
has the management of them, — y bears 
this ad i 
m 
eler oO “Te ers to 
place, The weather was 
