OCTOBER 9, 1875.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
451 
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, 
FOR WINTER AND SPRING, 
EASY. OF CULTURE. 
Carriage Free. Seedsmen to the 
SUTTONS’ 
CHOICE COLLECTIONS 
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the Quee Prince of Wales. 
FLOWER ROOTS. 
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6d., 215 S., and 425. 
round, 
ach, Carriage Free. 
For SUMMER але kuin Eat round 
., and 42s, each, К 
For WINTER and SPRING, Pots and Glasses, 
› 215., and 42s. each, Carriage Free 
H yacinths, 
choice 
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"GUINEA" COLLECTION. 
CHOICE FLOWER ROOTS 
For POTS anp GLASSES 
Contains the Finest Assortment of Bulbs yet offered, 
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18 Дур, named. 
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N.B.— The other Collections contain an equally liberal 
assortment. 
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GRATIS AND Роѕт FREE. 
SUTTON 
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OYAL BERKS SEED ESTABLISHMENT, "READING. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1875. 
A LINGUISTIC DIGRESSION. 
T is dum for young gardeners to spend а 
rtwo in Belgian, Dutch, or French 
horticultural establishments, because, if they 
most of the opportunity › they w will 
iare more than mere КОНС, It is no 
trifling advantage, on starting in life, to know 
something of other tongues geo English, and 
to fee i 
little-used and narrowly-spread prets 
instance, Flemish, of which we see and Бай 50 
much at Ghent, is, like Dutch, a distinct and 
Both belong t 
popular examples, it is not, like Dutc 
recognised state language of a nation. Belgium 
professes to be a French-speaking country ; 
nevertheless, Flemish is cultivated and acquired 
by educated Belgians as well as by the people, 
At Antwerp a hhandso ome theatre is devoted to 
tude are treated to theatrical a in 
the vulgar tongue. 
Country speech even, and patois; are not to be 
despised, because their words often reveal 
curious analogies and derivations of race as well 
s of language. A Norfolk plou ughman will 
say, “ Very roky this morning, sir ”—7.е., fog 
misty : from the German'rauch—fume, воке 
In the same county, the German plural housen, 
for houses, is prevalent in rural districts, 
Chicken, as the plural of chick, is preferred by 
many purists to теран, ich s their 
ear almost as much as “beloved foiiis T 
would. In the North of France, the peasantry, 
Charogne 
Жарган, a hat, is turned into cafzav, a сар; 
mm a bell, becomes a clock, and clocher, a 
steeple, a clocker, or clock-place. The mean 
ing of the change i ious when f 
chaise, a chair, cayelle is substituted. This 
brief hint indicates the — of the subject. 
good linguists, 
her ore 
a really well-educated Swiss is bound to know | 
all three : for any one of them may be spoken 
in the Federal Palace, or Swiss Parliament 
se, at i 
to assist non-understanding me 
a sharp polyglot debate. 
leisure (and so 
become well-to- do) to study, when there is little 
they travel during 
ul 
class Russians suck in foreign tongues with 
their nurses’ milk, and thereby acquire a pro-- 
ficiency which sometimes attains the mar- 
vellous. 
A foreign language is possible to be learned 
nti of Rome, to 
pon speech, turn to another saup . of visitors 
l ho, when gay after 
dinner, ar not resist eni сыш out in Chinese, 
although nobody about him knew a word of it. 
At those moments, he regretted (though married 
to an excellent English wife) having declined, 
we in ig a matrimonial union, proposed 
hi a professional ma кед maker, w 
ni я whom of c 
but whose golden Lilies, ay assured. us, were 
exquisitely small. 
re are even national linguistic aptitudes. 
necessary for maki 
o imperative reason for not taking a 
language-master. After youth is past, a foreign 
tongue may still be cadi ES like Gibbon, 
can think in French. n Houtte, the 
well-known. Ghent horticulturist, p» the age of 
twelve knew no language mish, but his 
travels in Brazil and нан Africa compelled 
to eral ot Cato the 
began to learn Greek at sev enty. 
earned late must be well kept up and заты 
о 
2 
em vigo during childhood and youth, can ever 
y damaged or weakened, much less 
pike ee е: 
 Thereis а popular idea tha t languages та 
imbibed, like health and карый by sy 
breathing the air of any given country ; 
| except in the case of earliest. childhood, the 
Even tho se who are 
go to the country wi 
t come familiar. 
without study—celum, non linguam, mutant. 
Witness the number of young people who are 
sent to France and Germany, who associate 
м solely with re ion iei and 
superiority ; because it mu 
every one, that it is ux effect of attention and 
of industry as well as of a good natural capacity 
of mind." 
During a walking tour sis the south coast 
ed by an indi- 
think, sir, we shall get P ro 
I guess you want to know re Yos. сап | 
rum of good beer. Come with me, and | b will 
