458 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 18, 1873, | 
state of the weather ; these will again come in for the 
first blooming, and may be started as before early in 
ouse or 
ve ak situation where they will mg get m eat in 
the night all through the season than just sufficient to 
a out frost, not suffer with this treat- 
son in those they already Kcu, assisting -— whilst 
makin: wth with manure h 
it is kept ay furnished at bottom, 
> more airada gro 
A. ar useful plant, 2 cua dise 
in habit, ge xcv more dense, e, ually ly 
managed, and, like the preceding, it is eod Kx winter 
forcing ; it requires similar treatment in 
itself, but анн cm. бна must be used a 
commencement to keep the rir of the Ll open 
and the base properly furn fi 
to Lea bare at ne 
ting well en the youn owth 
has pushed a оре of p» the m ny lave 
ot the: lates shook from с ош А рода 
р small 
young stoc 
ata, with a decided 
own as А, armata pen- 
iine, dida es eni 
the same treatment in every way, and, like 
is an excellent plant for Habes iim cut rine in "the 
winter and early spring. The following sorts are fine 
for planting-out in conservatories, and very suitable 
for occupying a or wall; so treated, instead of 
being stopped, they should be enc 
1 the first clear stem, and the side shoots 
kept cut in, so as to induce the plants to get up. They 
look the брые оо cl in to the 
wall, pillar, o 
rafter, where they may happen to be 
used, but Diced to hang in * somewhat irregular 
A. pubescens: an 
charming bright yellow flowers, produced freely in 
elegant, fine-leaved kind, with 
spring. 
A. longifolia: a beautiful meer species, 
very handsome ; suitable for coveri 
A. lophantha : a strong grower, r+ Se ers ely ; it is 
, than 
rs 1 insects 
under glass, white scale, for if this pest once gets upon 
them it spreads rapidly ; s in such a 
verhanging o 
and the plant 
Aaa 
branches in to x 
with ** Fowler" poe бш Ка to the 
applies, ыы суар age ministered thr 
pushed an buds, 
Bee 
Brown scale is 
E 
few days, before the plants have | 
more easily dealt 
— and maj -" -— MA repeated washings of 
with insecticide, during the 
ade of Sen Т. "Bain 
A BEGINNER IN BOTANY.* 
Mr. RUSKIN, “having been privileged to found 
the School of Art in the University of Oxford," now 
proposes to found a new school of botany. Of course 
it will be a vagarious school, One crying evil to be 
remedied is **that there are generally from three or 
four up to two dozen Latin names current for every 
flower," and ‘Һе most curr E im authoritative 
names " are **of the devil’s own c ving.” This is 
not seemly, As Wesley € no ot vinim. the devil to 
have the eqs = all the good tunes, so neither will 
In à. 
Rusk o have the naming of all the sweet 
flowers, He s in ‘to substitute boldly . 
ther generic names for the plants ies faultfally 
hitherto titled." “will not even name the cases 
in which they бе Ъееп тайе,” ка. ‘will * mask 
those which there was real occasion to а by some- 
times giving new names in cases where there was no 
necessity of such kind.” That i is to pia the evil of a 
o y 
innocent names are to suffer, lest bad ones should 
For it appears that the diabolical names to be sent to 
their own place in this reform are not discarded 
because they are cacophonous, although that is the 
common charge, but because they are immoral, O 
the two evils to bg Ta with, the first is simply a 
superfluity of Lat ; the second, and the worse, 
a — of а As Mr. ‘Ruskin forcibly 
puts 
M 
de m cond, and a nan more — one, is of e 
devil's ees contriving (and, remem am alwa 
quite serious when I cse of the JER -painei chat 
the most current and authoritative names are apt to be 
founded on , so that 
to —— them is to defile the reader's mind,” 
us of the ine Jody who thanked Dr. 
word is dic- 
I 
tionary, to whom the s moralist rejoined :—** 
rceive, madam, that ha ing for 
em.” Now, if the case be really as is represented, 
s ; 
seem to 
vere, 
gest the roper treatment ; for his pur- 
poses, one would think the Latin and Greek names 
might be left unt 
d 
юнен eant), ош author, е 
бте іп the endeavour to reform it :— 
n reny mass of useless nomenclature, now mistaken 
eu science, will fall away, üs ue husk of a Pop рру falls 
When the Science 
be 
Well, for that matter, the Pos ЖТ. in its 
irl figures of all 
| 
сы 
re res 
where to find them. And it amusingly ap 
# н" са 
с INE wn oe ngly, it is 
studies were, wiles [he] had pier the 
age of £ fifty, no further advanced than the reader will 
in the ter of this 
find them chap f book.’ 
As to this, the conclusions which reader will 
draw are all к eei за by the author, Next 
to the iousness, nothing is so 
M ende in the book as "e profession, not to rd 
ignorance of the topics treated, 
«терейин. of the science of botany,” “І d 
: Studies of Wayside Flowers, &c. By oec 
D. Part I. be Allen, Sunnyside, Ossington 
York: John Wiley & Son,” 
Rent 
Kent—New 
——— 
scarcely eid that I have d any tenure of it 
‘And meanwhile I don't know M 
pick some кыт of knowledge that т 
wige fallin his way. 
formation must gle 
author grows positive 
in which he does pron 
gladly d by its ro 
honest mistakes will Элал € A ec bier of thing w 
could not have discovered andering." 
likely ; but why invite БЕ "fo go fo e ith 
him erin DO 
he want of sufficient knowledge is pleaded 
excuse ; in it arad commenda 
gnorance, ha t it is qu 
tionable whether teaching is altogether the best use to 
put it to me r aee. 0. 
The second part 
It treats of the 1 
it т E 
t lui 
nder f the 
d anim 
n ; 2 
“ Scientifically you kno w green aves is owing 0 
сао саа = - Englis h, to § green Tea It may 
ery fine to ; but my a о you, on 
Who, is to reat hei with the general fact that leas 
this much the botanists really know and tell us 
ve egetation * 18 = chiefly of the breath "2 
o th 
n as, on the window panes, ® 
на arborescence of ice." 
т. Ruskin evidently has no idea of the essetis | 
i ases eae of the vegetable kingdom ; нр С 
the carbon of the breath of animals mec s fron mp 
so they, in nd, would furnish this Pens alit. 
tatio rhaps as rapidly, on be 
хорсачоп pe A of риу; M : 
whole, without the interventio 
the latter 
“ But how is fe made: into ж 
accordingly. 
Behold the result of the cram—‘‘ the getot 
matter ” :— 
“ Hence, generally, I think we may солай d 
much, that at ev re of its surface 
supple twigs of it, as you see 
