AUGUST 29, 1874] THE 
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me: TULIPS, CROCUS, NARCISSUS, &c., 
4 ready, and can be had gratis and post free 
on E seiticetien 
129, High Holborn, TT WE 
Seed Grounds—Erfurt , Prussia. 
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J stock of the above, in strong clumps ga winter forcing, 
begs to offer them at pæn iotlowing low n= S, 
245. oo clumps ; £10 pe eile 
Orders are now being booked, an vill, be executed in the 
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1874. 
© 
THE TUBEROSE. 
HIS beautiful and fragrant flower, which is 
where it appears to be very popular, ee been 
in cultivation in England since the time of 
Parkinson, who, in his Paradisus Te ar 
(1629), figures and describes two varieties of it 
under the name of “The Indian Knotted 
Iacinth.” He tells us that “they both grow 
naturally in the West Indies, from whence being 
first brought into Spaine, have from thence 
been dispe unto abe — of plants.” 
The native country of Tuberose was for 
some time unknown Pin næus and Hermann 
believed it to be indigenous to Ceylon and Java ; 
Clusius, who published a figure and ing 
in 1601, received it from Simon who 
said to have obtained his Ese "from 
India. It is, peer. pretty clear that by India 
some part of America was intended ; De Tovar 
was a Spaniard and as such had probably 
“pig relations with America than India, and 
it is well known that the term “Indian” was 
shen , applied to plants coming from America, 
nce of which the so-called 
i Indeed, the names of 
countries when applied to o piots are often 
grown in the gardens of Peru, Cochin Chinas 
and the Malay Archipelago. To this latter 
the plant and its exquisite fragrance render it a 
deservedly favourite flower. 
The normal single-flowered state of the 
Tuberose was first introduced into cultivation, 
and is beautifully figured by Redouté. It is 
now, however, very seldom met with, the less 
elegant double- flowered variety having taken 
its place. It is curious to notice how man 
plants are known and appreciated in cultivation 
only when they produce double flowers ; and to 
no 
profusion. In only two instances did we see 
the single-flowered state, and one of these was 
a white-blossomed variety ; yet it is difficult to 
understand why it is that the double-flowered 
m is so asirai preferred. The double 
Tuberose was first raised by a Leyden florist / 
named Le Cour, who obtained it from seed ; 
and such was his selfish anxiety to remain the 
sole possessor of the novelty that, having pro- 
fragrance of k on, which is especially 
observable night, and ae justifies 
Shelley’s asevicition of the plan 
“ The sweetest flower for scent that blows,” 
Like several others of the Lily tribe, its odour is 
unpleasant to some persons, producing head- 
ache and asphyxia when inhaled in a room. 
The scent is extracted from the blossoms by 
perfumers by the process of enfleurage, the 
flowers being Laidir strewn upon a layer of it 
(Phaseolus vulgaris) 3 is probably per yoron 
origin, and the French Honeysuckle (Hedy- 
sarum coronarium) is a native of Italy; the 
Prussian Asparagus of the Bath markets 
(Ornithogalum pyrenaicum) is a British plant 
[we bought it in Bath as “wild” Asparagus, 
or Bath Asparagus: see 1873, p. 843] and 
the Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus ee 
is a native of Brazil, while the French and 
African Marigolds (Tagetes patula and T. 
ta) are soe ai tives of Mexico and Peru. 
The Jesuit Father chats, who ented | in the 
| — Islands as a missionary about 200 
ince, tells us in his account of the plants 
of pee that the Tuberose had been brought 
by the Spaniards from Mexico, under the name 
of Vara de S. José, or St. Joseph’s Wand, in 
A no doubt, to the tall stem surmounted 
by its ve; somewhat pe Peye flowers, and the 
miraculous blossoming of St. Joseph’s 
Hernandez also states distinctly that it is a 
coerce a tier bpi Gai districts of 
Mexico. 
The 1 name Tuberose is a curious illustration 
of the way in which popular plant names are 
manufactured. It has nothing whatever to do 
with Roses, as might be expected, but is simply 
a corrupted abbreviation of the old scientific 
possibly language 
through | the word Tubereuse, by which the plant 
(which is said to have been first cultivated in 
the neighbourhood of Toulon) is known in 
considerable tin time, at the end of which thé scent” 
of the flowers has passed into the grease. The 
oil of Tuberose is obtained in a somewhat similar 
frame, and on these the flowers are laid. 
After a certain time has elapsed the cloths are 
— to great ice we by means of which — 
the now perfumed 
of fi 
flowers being about five francs ] 
preparation is mainly carried on in the South 
of France, where the Tuberose is 
grown 
for this purpose. The bulbs which are sent to 
England for garden cultivation come chiefly 
Pe Italy, especially from the neighbourhood 
of exportation and a much grown for purposes- 
dccockiede 
p the kag bkat the 
the “ Wires 
a name signifyin, the 
Night,’ which has been employed by Moore in 
g 
Žallah Rookh, who speaks of— 
“ The Tuberose with her silvery light, 
5 
She comes out when the sun's away.” 
The “ silvery light ” of the frost is not the 
only radiance emitted by the Tuberose. Like 
the garden Nasturtium cr ropzolum majus) and — 
some other plants it has been observed to shoot] 
out small sparks of flame from the e fading f 
in great abundance, on an occ 
