26—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CH RONICLE. 405 
BEST TWELVE CARNATIONS AND BEST TWELVE PICOTEES—continued. jin favour of the innovation, namely, the d to 
- disseminate scientific kno owledge amongst the lower 
3 5 NE 3 : $ classes, falls to the ground. In point of fact, to the 
E Names, RAISERS. 5s E HERIR 5 22 ( A generality of readers, the names given by men of science 
£ EARS aaRS SEa oE elses (Sie EIS ICE weng e which ther a sort of memoria technica, 
S = — * E ns Of w ey are enabled to co t to 
ES aid iad SARE RE E áa |E |E fc cbc dc cd La alee ad memory, without effort, a considerable number of the 
edi | | | obj so named ; and, for this p „a technolo 
* Heavy D. wn me 1 11 1 1 . . | 4 compounded from the dead lan is far more appro- 
S |King James 4 si Hi 110 ii 1. | i i 1014 | priate any co 8 of English words, 
S Mr. Trahar = ne 1 * | 2 hats proof in the fact, that the best system of artificial 
S [Mrs. Bevan oz -|Borroughes 10% 11001 1. “| As 1 1 2 | memory co upon the principle of 
2— i aa z K z — 15 L Latinising the words, and ing them in h eter 
8 bastian 55 nh a * r a 1 11 i I| 5 verse. various othe jecti plan, 
1 am! 2 wa . Ai 2 i as, for ins „the inconvenience attending the trans- 
8 Daches s of Sutherland — ughes — 10 10 11 inn. . 11 lag | Position of neric and specific n d the am- 
S Em Sa ut . . * it. i.. 1 | biguity produced by using lated terms of speci 
5 — 3 pi a 1 10 1 sh -|-| 1|... 4 well known by their technical appellations. Iam at 
s eyii 9 2 HUNI 8 he yes aus ee BS Sig Be 11 za loss to know what plant is alluded toin the Chronicle, 
S Lady Flora hes eee ee Mes 1 ſof June 15, as “ Beauty Dendrobe, whether Den- 
S Mira ae es iss | ee ...| 1 | drobiam form „ 8 or pulchellum? To the 
a a t ivr rern. 9 — 11. 1 ſother two modes of providing English names there 
S |Constance 1 en le indeed, they may frequently be wean 
S [Delicata FET e (in addition to the classical names) with 
S |General Jackson... Burroughes 1. when not applied to = The plan of Anglicisin, 
N [Jenny Lind... i 14 th glicising 
8 Jes dk 110i i 1 i terminati technical = gf ses when using 
8 Lady Chesterfield ges y “Tis m in Engl compositi, often renders the con- 
J . — of nae sai rs Tes: 1 struction of t more concise, an 
8 olivia per 2 ý — * 3 | i 1|.. phraseology more maa $ 71 also facilitates the use of 
S | President ie Burroughes We eS bel 8 the plurals, without th g pedantry of declin 
N- | Princo Albert 2 arris 1} 1) 1 ME ETETE ET 1 1 1| 1/1 3 or G ords. D y a 
“ — 1 .. 1 rchids are decidedly preferable to Oncidium, Dendro- 
~ oa a YUU edad tp E se ee a , and Orchidacese, With respect to vernacular 
N na nn 1 appellations, when you have them kuown an cog. 
S {Rising S 2 11. nised, by s use them in preference either to 
s Amy „ Surroughes 1 1 1.3 | Anglicised or translated names. Let us have Snowdrop, 
S Ann Page RPS: ow To 1 į not Milkflower ; Oak Beech, not Querque and 
S Delicata * i he Heald 1 1 4 Fage. Let the Frenchman enj Chéne, and the 
J ae ‘hes i 1 1)... German his Eiche; but let us not, nevertheless, lose 
8 Pairy Gand “| Barringer “kaly sight of the politan designation Quercus, which 
S [Juliet 5 1 1 ieee 11111 11 16 | conveys now, as it done si the days of Virgil, th 
i Lady Harriet Moore 2 ; 1 same idea to the mind of the whole world. Nomenclator. 
8 2 à e : Hai ut-door CS. iend of r 
8 A z . Burroughes a 1 F 1 Hda out-door Vine of the Dutch Sweetwater variety 
E un. ei is vf Ely 8 1 i which yearly produces a vast s fi but 
— = f 9 ever ripens any of it. Only — am there are 
8 a — r 1 5 there any stones i N boa Gra E the ain body ae 
Heavy Ross, mere abortions. is the ca of al The 
3 Miss Roos ae Merryweather Be es ie | 1 soil i — of . depth — * ache rst at 3 or 
S |Princess Royal : 11 1 a) a aay ay ay ap 1,1 1101 i i ij17| 4 feet you come to water. Would root. pruning be safe 
S Vic 11 1. rie ae ie te RE ae Bai 11 | in such a apo able him, by undermining the 
8 cee 1| 1 10 1 1 1] 2] 1] 1 1. 1. 1 1) 1) 1) 1016 tree, to nantly oë Cele Ba ee 
. rubbish, and other “rough but í to cut off 
„ . N ; te communi beneath 1 Samuel 
L Burrou a per, pi k à 
8 oa a — I i e 4. 5 HATATA e Na 10 ite rr arene, g [Instead of pruning 
S Mrs. Barnard 4ra a aa afa a aS 4499449 9 
S urs. Trahar seha A 1 see.) 
8 V% c be eval yes 11 U] Botanical Names. — While resting on my oars after 
lengthened exe sae as a contributor to the Gar- 
VILLA AND . e 8 decay in the flowers and foliage begins to be apparent, | deners’ Chro n roused toa fresh attempt 
Few plants con contribute the green- pei EA but t progressively, withdraw all waterings, by the excellent leading ar article 2 last S. aturday, on the 
house of the village ga 8 — ait different varieties | place the plants in the full sun under cover, until their | important subject of rminology. The A dl 
of Achimenes. On this t deserve stems are 3 i, when t e away | tical wit exhibited in that ok the f the 
passing notice, for they are very easily — under a e stage in any dry place, laying the utile eum dulci (the useful with the sweet to 
and occupy little space in w . All who possess a pots on their ie in order to prevent the ingress ensure to the writer th tion of own 
cold pit or greenhouse ae grow them well ; but fe moisture. Pharo views, provided he will continue to favour the public 
who have warm pits or hothouses may — such illustrations - he has eee 1 1 
enjoy their ee for > longer period of time. Home Correspondence ot, therefore, res voca 
few ** — oma — 2 to — — Scientific Nomenclature. — I am happy to find elke. merits of the question, but n glance at e 
notice e as that the writer of the Leading Article in your last Collateral topic, which yet 
— l like eng any other plants i it only ex existed Number seems inclined odify his views wi ent. I en to the aid raped is lent to 
a b ity, garde: dening to the substitution of an English t or the | mere sepina m and learned ignorance 
— broug upon it, and we kern, an such | binomial system, adopted by all cultivators in every de- sarily scientific phraseology. I 2 a working gar- 
. < of it as we have seen of late years. partment of science since the days of Linn This is | dener at this time who keeps the visi his master’s 
It is now well known ere the 8 are all no trivial question, and one that ought not to be sub- enhouse in a continual titter rs Ne, nego 
iik jao pagated, that almost every of the tubers | mitted to the caprice of any individual, doses inn t | ciation of Latin and Greek names, which, if Anglicised, 
forms a * and that these may be — to bloom | his name o station in the ranks ld y uttered, and yet the honest man 
during the c t n. The amateur who may It is a world-wide question, and should not ia, pirar d believes all the time that the oses and uses are as much 
ers, and whose object is cure strong sea bra sanction of a ger ner -i congress of science. : part of his art as digging, anc and petite and grafting. 
blooming plants rather than numbers, will do well to There are three m of which, either singly f this were all, à pa ameni or shai 4 
retain the tubers entire. Before they are nes or bee e che ar an Ere for the alteration seek to but it strikes its roots 1 general societ 
d when first brought their winter carry out their views: Ist, By the literal translation o with persons who, if botanical " 
let them be plunged in a of water — an the chnical by Anglicising their termina- | punged from n’s English, would stand on their 
soil is completely wet — Se tions ; and, 3d, use of — 05 ts ; but who are enabled, by 
th on a warm — to drain. the mode ion ne, almost i in- | Greek and Fe den in es of their 
In 
position — may remain until they begin to show 
Se poner of growth, when they may be ns g out of 
pots, and the tubers collected from the soil. If 
3 
bloom beautifully, is 
t ja 
and Loveable TO and when we have 
„the use 
is equal parts 
trot nan ad ef meal and one-fifth 
ey bag — or 
idp 
an objecti 
superable, in the s gaged of the English language | 
eren i 
ow, for instance, can 
pidendrum selligerum and Thale nopsis 
er th 
meaning assical names without | an 
phrases eee for their length and in- 
| legant 1 in gs construction, re 
es we translate E 
accom- 
n of the village | to 
— protest in these 
days, for the mination of so mu > falsely 
ed „useful ‘nowlege) wies can be m 
rs? and wha: — intelli- 
rv * puan reader than by 
re easil 
gible idea do we piia 
e 
v 
re euphonious and m 
rene appellations derived from * 
eric and ific names, when properly co 
constructed 
tnd “judiciously applied, ought and do 33 to the 
reader certain definite rtain 
information 
| sequently the only important argument 
Aa 
was about to say, a 
meee TA I prefer to call sai “a consummation, devoutly 
ed. 
Hen 
What bing has Gua pon P a s- 
gardener has apples = and T fe fancy that 
ch stro the flowers hey „ 
with bolus, and Camellia ( 
roof bour in 
con-| vain, Still, e it is not uncommon to hear Gla- 
| díolus made to rhyme though 
