232 Queries and Answers to Queries. 



by giving me the above information. The circumstance of having a large 

 stock of the sort at Shugborough, whereas there were not more than two or 

 three plants (as Mr. Hodson informed me) at Colton Hall, sufficiently 

 proves that it was first cultivated at this place. I have traced it back as far 

 as 30 years at Shugborough, and if C. F. W. or any other, has any thing to 

 offer more convincing than his bare assertion in support of what he has 

 advanced, all I can say is, that I shall be glad to see it_; but T must observe, 

 that, unless he puts his real signature to the communication, it will be un- 

 noticed by me, as it ought to be by the public. I remain, dear Sir, &c. — 

 W. M' Murine. Shugborough, Feb. 1. 19.^9. 



Woodwdrdia radlcans should be substituted for ^diantum pedatum, in 

 p. 52. — James Housman. Toft, Cheshire, March, 1829. 



Fences iii the Southern States of N. America. — You will oblige me by 

 correcting an error in the abstract you made from my communication on 

 the United States. (Vol. IV. p. 465.) In your version you make me to say, 

 that the live fence I saw of the jRosa multiflora, in the State of Georgia, was 

 the first live fence I had seen in America; whereas the sentence in the 

 original MS. (now before me) runs thus: " The only live fence I saw in the 

 Southern States." As several of my acquaintances in the north are aware 

 I could have no grounds for such an assertion, I beg you will, if possible, 

 correct it in nest Number. — A. Gordo?z. Appley Castle, Wellington, Salop. 



Frratum. — Vol. IV. p. 486. line 11. from bottom, for Seed read Seji;. 



Art. XL Queries and Anstoers to Queries. 



Rules for pronouncing Botanic Names (in answer to X. Z.). — The true 

 pronunciation of Greek and Latin words being lost, the natives of different 

 countries treat them according to the rules of their respective languages; and 

 however discordant those rules may be, still oral intercourse in that tongue is 

 so unfrequent, that even were the learned disposed to reduce its sounds to a 

 conventional standard, it would scarcely be worth the trouble. We mention 

 this, in order that should any of our readers meet with a brother-gardener 

 of another country, he may not consider his pronunciation of systematic 

 names incorrect, nor be unable to assign a reason for the discrepancy. Thus, 

 then, in England, we subject the vowels to the rules of our own tongue, with- 

 out any attention to the Latin quantity, often producing results absurd 

 enough in all conscience ; but it is an absurdity shared in common with other 

 nations, and, as we have said, not worth the trouble of altering. It might, 

 perhaps, be sufficient to direct X. Z. to pronounce Latin vowels as he would 

 English, placing the accent as he may find it marked, and to treat the con- 

 sonants, with the exception of ch, in the same manner; but as many garden- 

 ers may not be masters of the correct pronunciation of their mother tongue, 

 for their information, we shall go more into detail. 



In classical words there are as many syllables as there are voivels ; except 

 v/hen u with any other vowel follows g, q, or s, and when two vowels unite 

 to form a diphthong. The diphthongs are (b, ce, ai, ei, oi, tii, an, eti, and ou. 

 These seldom coalesce in final syllables, and when separated in initial or 

 medial syllables, it will be indicated by a diceresis, as ou, except when the 

 accent falls on the first vowel, as ou, in which case the accentual mark is 

 sufficient, oo, ee, ea, and other combinations which never occur as diph- 

 thongs in classical words, follow, in commemorative names, the pronunci- 

 ation of their primitives, as Teidia, Woodsia. 



In this work the sounds of the accented voivels are sufficiently indicated 

 by the mark placed over each, and therefore it may seem unnecessaiy to 



