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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Fesrvary 12, 1887, 
lower limit sharply defined, but above gradually 
increasing in heat. Above this stratum is the com- 
paratively warm atmosphere, bearing watery v 
of dew by condensation of watery 
eold stratum. Most of the moisture seen upon m 
plants in the morning, in the course of a season, is 
transpired by the plants themselves, and this tran- 
spiration is sufficient in quantity to supply an appre- 
rtion of the atmospheric vapour subse- 
quently deposited as dew, 
A MANUAL OF ORDHIDADEQUE RANTS 
The first part of Me AMES VEITCH & Son’s 
Manual of ‘Cultivated Orchids, festes to > the genus 
been issued. I 
are given as well as the stupid Fahrenheit degrees. 
— FIXTURES.— The annual exhibition 
ridge Horticultural T will v 
place on August 17, and that o e Maidenhea 
Horticultural Society on August la 
READING HORTICULTURAL SociETY. — The 
Lgs spring exhibition of qr ET will this year 
xtended over two da take n et. des 
a little later más. usual, The 
show is fixed for August 25. 
Moore MEMORIAL FUND.—The Editor has to 
acknowledge sg receipt of subscriptions, varying 
from 2s. 64, е 8., from М, Lovis v. IovTTE, 
Ghent ; B. S. Wa AMS, J. Laine, and Ww. Horses, 
тим subscriptions should be sent ёо Dr. MASTER 
at the office of this Journal, or to Harry ок 
Esq., King’s Road, Chelsea. 
THE BunnipGE FuUND.—The Lach contri- 
боне to this ae үч e p. 220) have been received 
by Mr. R. DEAN . C 
essrs. Hurst & Son, Houndsditch, 10s. 64 
NOLIA ACUMINATA, —- Profe Sar- 
le gem contributed to Зе American ral of 
ever eh of his recent journey 
bie: explored Ъ 
a hundred тыт 
and по 
visited Wr any botanists since eh g~ 
country w 
1. The principal object ot 
Micnavx was to get pasa — 0 olia 
ta. 
сог- 
da is form эй ар though commonl 
distributed in garde qe never been found 
wild since Matis "Hte; hence it was one of 
the aims of fessor SARGENT’s journey to re- 
discover the pl Followi ing in Micwavx’s tracks 
ass0r SARGENT visited the mountains, which a 
still covered with Magn &uriculata abouts 
nd the curious Shortia, to whic ch in 
was figured in а чесе: 
terest attaches, and which 
Chronicle, vol. xv., 1881, p. 596. 'The Mag- 
эгеч cordata of gardens was, however, ree lios 9e 
ough here and there in t e mounta ains of Carol 
na Ala 
niy nown 
town tree, being not only distict and 
character, but able to resist the injurious effects of 
oke, 
MAIZE PRODUCTS.—An interesting feature of 
the forthcomin ng 
in all its phase in on the stalk to the last 
refinement of manufac in table delicacies: an 
of this exhibit is to illustrate the wide 
variety of food products obtained from it, and a 
ord instruction as to the methods of d ng 
starch, corn, sugar, or glucose, paper-pulp, and other 
AMA dcm аны 
British Flora, „ Ву о, Ваа PRS, Fi iti edition, 
i т ы pia ix 
by Sir J. D. Ноокев, F.R.S. (London: L. күк 
& Co., 5, MenricHa Street, Covent Garden.)—Agri 
e Statistics of Great Britain: Tables 
т Extent in % Acres, and the estimated Average 
Produce per Acre for 1 (London : 
Observ rations on a Disease Affecting 
Arboretum. By the Director. (Cambridge, Mass). 
NOTICES OF Books. 
A pe ION OF ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. Dy 
es Britten and Robert Holland. (Trübner 
; Co ) 
lad to be able to announce the publication 
of the third and concluding pa this most useful 
publieation, In it are gathered together from all avail- 
able sourees, the genuine popular names of plants, 
names which our ancestors bestowed, names which 
have in many instances found a place i in literature, 
re, but not avert their ulti- 
ary - у e grounds this 
is to be deplored. Оз scientific grounds it might at 
first sight seem a matter br regret also, but when we 
find that — we have been in the habit of calling 
a Primrose is by right of yoradi a An while a 
I is sometim mes a Daisy a a Prim- 
and when we daily Meri m e peheee 
nuisance of a oiled popular names, we cannot, in 
the interests of science, pretend to lament the dis- 
pe f such misleading and unauthorised 
epithets — nomenclature is based up 
controlled agination, upon sympathy without 
п 
nowledge, ım casual impressions unsupported by 
ct; it is a chaotic confusion of words without clue 
or index. Scientific nomenclature is bad enough and 
interest in the subject to take the small amount of 
pains necessary to overcome them. Scientific по- 
menclature at least implies system, order, and 
registration. 
* Publica 
before us, 
33 
ns and sinners,” according to the book 
а rsh Ма rigolds E and | x MS” 
, but which и the “Publican " and 
Sinner” is not stated. In any case we 
TU to think that the words Caliha and Ranuncu- 
he the piam "world, are in all дик preferable. 
egister eh all such popular names as those 
pga P4 “should 
A 
ance irom а 
M 
us, let us hope, are there who would rei be interested 
in the playful fancy the name indic 
* Poucxrist, Lycoperdon бзен кайышы 
used by early writers T & term of contempt, as in 
Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act i., sc. 1 Vicars’ 
erg irre Concave visited London (1648), 
13, &e. Cfr, z-bal. In Glo к-не ы 
An Irish name for 
t is ‘Cos a Phooka,’ or * Pooka's foot,’ гуен * Puck's 
foot;' Keightley's Fairy Mythology, p. 317; Prior, 
p. 189." 
T itation may serve also to show the care and 
diligence of the compi ers, 
ritten and Holland diff 
the standard work of Dr, Prior, in taking d apos 
far д of literary names that have found their 
to books, but also of provincialisms which ay ve 
ч found their way into literature. is prefaced 
by a very interesting Introduction, showing th 
principles on which the authors have worked, the 
probable sources of some of the names in various 
1 the perversions tations they have 
d 
undergone ; and, lastly, a very full bibliography and 
excellent index. 
GROWING, CURING, AND 
тимә. ANUFAC- 
TUR 
'arnford Lock, 
Those who are меката of carrying out further 
experiments acco culture will do well 
to read this little к devoted to an expla- . 1 
nation of the several processes of cultivation and 
manufacture. 
rn France, 
d Bel gium, would be arie The great dif- 
ruin in this a uate results from our relatively de- 
fective sun-heat and li DA неф not only spreads е 
ipenin eri 
and will be wise not to embark too heavily in a ero 
so exacting and exposed to so many risks. € 
x allscale, as an seres to other ai it may, if 
he Government permit, be gr o profit here in 
favourable seasons, аз well as in Holland or Northern 
onies, however, there is 
Re 
and manufactured as it is in Cuba or Manilla; ‘and if 
Mr. Lock’s book liba: in stimulating our colonial 
brethren in this matter he will have done Bere 
service. 
Mr. Lock's book contains a large amount of infor- 
mation relating to the fiscal regulations in ot 
countries Page d much of statistical 
detail, asily eu Yeas and which 
will be te. to em concerne 
By Professor D. 
LIFE HISTORIES OF PLANT: 
McAlpine, ر‎ Lowrey 
(Swan, 
о.) 
duction. ral mai ups аг 
of, and the e principal features of their life-history 
ебите ean med up by the = of e езг 
trived diagrams. may 
as an excellent introduction to буя botany. 
ALBUM BE INDIAN FERNS. Ву C. E 
(London: W. Day, 214, Berners’ Е У 
This book consists of a series of quarto ca 
меш GE opi from -or 
might 
pretty E the dra 
perhaps all that the thor inten 
AMATEURS’ NOTES. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HRUBYANA AND 
CATTLEYA PERCIVALIANA ALB 
T may interest Orchid нори to seers 
my plant of Odontogloss Hrubyana 
more in flower here, this time with a man of fifty- 
one flowers of the purest w. d 
spots ; thus again proving the > distinctive probe 3 
the variety. 
I have also in flower Cattleya Percivaliana albi 
for the first time жес! r perfi 
from Cattleya crocata, п 
Downside, Leatherhead, 
