THE 
NOVEMBER 20, 1875.] 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
645 
WELLINGTONIA GIGANTEA 
EA VARIEG 
iis, Inches. 
Height 24 6 
Circumference of Branches ... 32 6 
"e of ТИЕ: 3 4 
eason's Shoot ........... 6 
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Originated at fhe M i. р Cork. 
They wie been Planted by the following 
— A m 
es, at Sandringham. 
at Blenheim (to 
is Grace the aka of Leeds, at рес tle Limo 
Her Grace the Duchess of Manchester, — i 
His nm е. Duke of Manchest t Tangragee and Kim- 
stle. 
an e Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim. [House 
uke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsa: and Apsley 
Most Noble the eripe d of Water ord, at C NUDO re 
Right a the Earl of Abergavenny, at Eridge Castle, Tun- 
bridge We Ils. 
Right ов the Earl of Annesly, at Castlewellan, County Down, 
Right Hon. the Earl of с, * posce Hall, Warwick. 
Right Нос the Earl of Bec t Un v , Westmor- 
Right Hon. the Earl of Cork, d atin me. Папа, 
Right Hon. the Earl of Clancarty, at байайу, те 
Right Hon. the Earl of Devon, at Powderham a tle, Exeter. 
E ie е Earl of Ducie, at din House, Chipping- 
Right Hon. the of St. Certs 
. the Ead of Warwi d 
. the Earl of Wicklow, Shelton Abbey, Ar 
on. the Countess of Kingston, at The Castle, Michels: 
town. 
Right Hon. Lord Berwick, at Attingham Hall, lm 
Right Hon. Lord Бопетай, at The Court, Done 
1 ht Hon. гога itzgerald at Oakley Mut, Windsor. 
Right Hon. Lord айкара, at Hollycombe, Hant 
Right Hon. Lord Powerscourt, at Powerscourt, ' County D Dublin. 
Right Hon. > Lord Skelmersdale, at Lathom House, Ormskirk, 
Right Ho. Т Lord Wro Wrottesley, at The Hall, Staffordshire. 
Right E Langdale, at 0 'Herefo has 
Right H ndadi Russell, at Cheq s Court, Hert 
Right Hon Lady Pollen, "at Жома Нап, pom анн 
Right Hon Lady Rolle, at Bicton, Exeter. id 
Right Lady Tennisson, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Long- 
EM Tho cland, Bart., at Killerton, Exeter. 
Si ry Becher, Bart., at pig pera Mallo 
Se James Colquhoun, Bart., osshhu, Dumbartonshire 
ә Mills, В; at Hallingdon Court, Uxbri 
ir D. Norreys, Bart. Castle, Mallow. 
5 urn Hall, 
ce Suff 
And ed the Модер Nobility and Gentry in the Kingdom 
had до sple. ndid Trees for Avenue Santi, 
: PRICES. 
Ist E сга v eem 5 feet 45 5 О 
2d Splendid Plants ie aoe ee 
3d ” Ve ery fine н » 4 2-0 
5th 2 Stout d # » -— Ба, 
Е » Nice little Plan I о 10 
the pans set of plants, and same as t those at Sandring- 
Althorpe, and had by the Nobility chiefly. 
“All removed Spring 1875. 
RICHARD HARTLAND, 
LOUGH NURSERIES, CORK. 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1875. 
— 9 
RUE. 
“ For и there's оплата and Rue ; moe keep 
Seeming and savo 
Grace and MER be with you 
\ Л [ti a fast de the time when 
such plants as * — seeming and 
savour ms the winter long > 
thémums are — past thei 
here and there, has a melancholy lo 
it, as if it would rather remind us of *the 
summer-time that was" than claim any notice or 
admiration for itself. So looking round fora 
peg whereon to hang a little floral chat, our eye 
аца upon the trim bush of Rue, and we take 
t as our text 
The date of the introduction of Rue to our 
gardens is not known ; but there is little doubt 
that it was familiar to the monkish herbalists of 
mediaval times, who united in themselves the 
function of physician p relieving "€ ж 
addition to their spiritual duties. In Par 
son's time it was * common enough ES all 
this realm ;" and Shakspeare's repeated allusion 
to it shows that it must have been a familiar 
In Anglo-Saxon times, 
widely different diseases, such as carbuncles, 
s of the eyes, “sore of the 
atedness,” and bleeding at the nose, 
and was applied, as we learn from Mr. Cock- 
e’s м, externaly аз 
internally But s catalogue of its virtues 
TAM po insignificant before 
that ined i in the Garden of Health, where 
we find no less than two hundred and sixty- 
four cases in which Rue may be beneficially 
e under the Sage, where 
не delight to be"; *eate it after Garlicke 
and Onions, to put away their smell ;" and so 
on for every imaginable or unimaginable ache 
or — which “flesh is heir to.” It seem 
that in spite of such a catalogue of 
good TT Rue now-a-days finds no 
in our pharmacopoeia, so far as a 
— recognition of its merits is con- 
it is, хны still employ ed i 
vit pharmacy, a “rue tea” is a popular 
remedy for various complaints which would be 
very efficacious should it be as beneficial as it 
is nasty. 
Some of the uses of Rue in former days are 
of historical notoriety. It was, for instance, the 
principal ingredient in the celebrated antidote 
against Det of Mithridates of Pontus, the 
form which, as found in his own hand- 
writing Бе Cneius Pompeius after that pags 
defeat, runs as follows :—“ Take two dry Waln 
ern many Figs, of Rue twenty es 
stamp all Face together ihto one mess, with a 
grain or corn of salt. Whoever eats of this 
confection in a morning fasting, no ponen shall 
In more recent days, Rue 
B 
“vinaigre à quatre 
posed to be an efficacious remedy ape the 
plague. In this capacity, indeed, Rue was 
great repute among ourselves, Itwas Fae. and 
probably still is, е custom to strew the dock 
of the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey 
with Rue ; and in pened s Life of Fielding 
we are told that this use arose after a contagious 
murder by the Mannings will remember how 
the unhappy woman, after one of the speeches of 
the opposing «кше, gathered up some of the 
ich lay before her, and flung 
The Neapolitans have a 
similar belief in the efficacy of the plant against 
foul air, and on this account bear it about with 
them as a nosegay. Possibly it was similarly 
employed in England i in Shakspeare's day. He 
makes “ Lafeu,” in 4/75 Well that Ends Well, 
say that Rue is not a salad herb, but a nose 
herb ; but its scent is not sufficiently agreeable 
already given, by. whic 
kept in good health, and didi he disclosed 
only to a few of his most intimate friends. 
Four wem of Rüe were taken at sunri 
i uniper, a Nut, a dried Fig, anda 
на вай, d of these a compound was 
was eaten fasting. According to the old 
satus animals as well as men were aware 
ency of Rue against poison ; thus an 
old DEDERE from Macer says :— 
** Weezels teach it can withstand strong poyson's spite, 
are about witlr serpents black to 
ght, 
In wondrous sort do first of all Rue nibble, eat, and 
bite 
It —1 appear that Rue was esteemed by the 
Romans for imparting a taste to wine; Pliny 
mentions that when Cornelius Аса was 
tus FL 
elected Consul with Quintus ,he gave 
to the people a Zazgesse of new voured 
with сга 
The name “ herb of grace,” or “ herb grace,” 
by which “ Ophelia” designates the Rue, has jd 
to some speculation. It is usually stated in 
books of reference that it was so called in allu- 
sion to its having been employed as 
cedes the Sunday celebration of High Mass; 
but for this supposition there is no ground, as 
there is no authentic SUE: Ns 
ever so used. jew Taylor. riego. Yo 
he says, “from ae as we su e, came to 
be called herb of grace ;” and this passage 
seems to have been the fons et origo of all 
kindred and subsequent explanations. It does 
time or thereabouts applied also to another 
plant, probably Wormwood ; but in a letter of 
Edward Alleyn, the actor, dated August I, 1593, 
he advises his remedies 
— the plague which was then raging, to 
e in her windows “good store of Rue and 
herbe of grace ”—the cone крче indi- 
as s protecting from plague is clear from Tusser's 
vie “Wha savor is at if physicke be true, 
or places infected, than Wormw wood and Rue?” 
Saas bypothesis as to the origin of the 
name is a good example of an improbable deri- 
am not mistaken, it 
e-grace in Sussex, in 
gr ug — to Ave Maria, gratiá plena"! 
e of the plant suggested various 
“= pem ge to Shakspeare, but to other 
