SEPTEMBER 5, 1874] THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 289 
[N WwW P-L cee Niet? Ss 
Three best New Plants oe re me — 
_ CROTON MAJESTI 
DIPLADEN A BREARLEVANA, 
a. ‘SP pa dn. 
Mr. WILLIAM E BULL'S S abina for New and Rare 
Plants, King’s Road, Chelsea, London 
M. Souchet’s New EEE R ew Roses, & 
OCE VERDIER, Fis RE 
; ORTICULTURIST, 72, Rue Dunois, Gare d’Ivry, Paris, 
i has the moar to announce to his numerous friends that his 
SPECIAL CPTALORNE. of ag rie ne =r hed as 
a charge, on application etter t paid); also that 
“al W ROSES of 1874. 
LADIOLI will be sent out in Aut in 
0, 1 oo, and 1000 of each variety, at the lowest amr ana price 
for which, ple fenaditions, see a ). 
Australian Se 
EEDS “ot "TIMBER “TREES, PALMS, 
SHRUBS, Plants indigenous to Aa ustralia, ow 
„and Fiji, E in ARAU ARIAS, TREE FERNS, 
5 variegate FLAX, &c. Orders may be left’ with our London 
p Agents, Messrs. C. J. BLACKITH anp CO., Cox's Quay, 
: Thames “geen Fag EG, ba iat aian tiled 
SHEPHERD an ing 
_ Nursery, Sydney, New South W. Wales. "(Established 1827. se 
P To the Trade only. 
A M. C. JONGKINDT CONINCK’S 
èe WHOLESALE LISE, finns a fine sag a Maiden 
md Standard ET a, Due | e Fg Hi wy 
í oses, Dielytra ilis, Becs japonica. 
- Convallaria majalis mes other Hardy Perennials, a Japonica, 
Tuberous-rooted Plants, is now ready, and will be sent, post 
s free, on ap on application. 
ottenham Nurseries, Dedemsvaart, near Zwolle, Netherlands. 
Indian Azaleas, &c. 
EAN VERSCHAF FELT begs to offer the 
above, 
wA tine thy grown plants, at the undermentioned 
CAMELLIAS, ah buds, 1 to 1% foot high, £7 per roo; 
wa ger, £ 10 bs 415 and upwards; without buds, fine strong 
s, to £8 per 100. 
DICA, _ plants, 45 per roo; stronger, £6, 
x to o fia ‘nese u; 
E pie which are all first-rate, to be left 
A ORANGES, with fruit, 28s. per doz 
JASMINUM GRANDIFLORUM, ee aa per dozen. 
arly orders solicit 
To the Trade. 
HEPATICAS and CHRISTMAS ROSES. 
SANDER AND CO., SEED GROWERS, 
St. Albans, offer, in seria crowns— 
IEPATICA, Sinale Blue, 20s. per 1000. 
Red, 30s. per 1000. 
” aa 
f; = ORUS NI Aer saa . per I 
A 755. per I e, 50S. paea = 
NICA, German EA mix Bee es 
White Garden Lily, y, a ie. oo 1000. 
UIFOLIUM. true, £5 per 
PULCHELLUM,'s re and sc coho 358. per doz. 
ELPHUM conga ,» S10p 100. 
ELYTRA. SPECTABILIS, 8s. 
LEUCOUJUM VERNUM, Spring ration a ISS. per 1000. 
OUNG PALMS.—The following are now 
disposable in large quantities, viz, :— 
LATANIA BORBONICA, two to three divided leaves, £6 
CORYPH PHA AUSTRALIS, £6 per 100. 
CHAMROPS EXCELSA, 1 foot heh, strong, 45 per roo. 
= _. FORTUNEL, r foot high, strong, AS at 100. 
bi ‘PHN ENIX em FA 134 foot, with dividing leaves, gos. 
” EN Sean, © i inches high, in store Pots, 48s. per.1o0, 
Paben SPERMA ree em — This most beautiful 
store pots, 
ARECA MONOSTACHYA, i in sto store p pots, £6 g 100. 
solicit 
BJEAN VERSCHAFFELT i Be g pe Ghent, 
 _CURIO and NEW PLANT MERCHANTS. 
ESSRS. TEUTSCHEL anD CO. desire 
- to take this ity of thanking their Friends and 
an (late of Messrs. Osborn & 
& Sugden, of Covent 
„and Porcelain from 
same dili- 
ject will find ample material for so doing in the | criminal who had bee 
time; on the present occasion we shall 
of employing the Man aniärake in metini ie 
ziga ae figures here given (figs. 58, 59) which 
ecially interesting as representing not 
ae pva male but the female Mandrake, illus- 
trate this. They are taken from a MS. in the 
Ashmolean Library at Oxford, and a similar 
one of the male Mandrake exists in the British 
Museum (Harl. MS., 1585). The female Man- 
drake is comparatively seldom represented 
in MSS. 
SATURDA pa SEPTEMBER Şi 1874. The figure of the dog beneath the feet of the 
Mandrake points to the method in which the 
: plant was to be procured, as indicated in the 
THE MANDRAKE. foregoing account, It was supposed that it 
hrieked when torn from the earth, and that 
“ Teach me where th Man Porsenna 
Wheat sale tek, torn t from the pect groans | this shriek caused the death of whoever should 
At midnight hour, can sca ends away, PE it; and the unfortunate dog fell a victim 
nd make the mind es in its a, Sea o this extraction. The shriek was supposed in 
re mining districts of Germany to be uttered 
5 Beare remarkable legends attaching to certain | by the Kobolds who watched over the plant. 
ural objects offer interesting matter | This method of obtaining the Mandrake is very 
for contemplation both to the ethnologist and | ancient. Josephus mentions it as being prac- 
antiquarian. Almost endless in their number | tised by the Jews; 
and variety—now clearly traceable to some old 
wae ge = dimly i ah of along past | Mandrake root, a a dog in the agonies of 
ages and un — mt eS a i close at ha 
the Bar erd into their origin an č 
—they may be looked upon as supplying? the gm of the arenes — ox 
fi d f l his d night “ike a lamp” seems to connect it in some 
ction and romance of natura tory, and as way with the “ eae Ot glory” of ‘the midi 
bringing before the notice of antiquarian akei iiair acens even toh i GE 
observers plants or animals which would other- 
wise never occupy his attention. M 
e Mandrake has from ‘very early times | « 
am 
plants. Itis not our intention to enter upon a 
discussion as to the plant intended under the probable that it is a corruption of Main-de- 
name of Dudaim (translated as Mandrakes) in | Gloire. In many particulars the Mandrake 
the Book of Genesis, chap. xxx., 14—16. € | showed the powers attributed to the mysterious 
passage to which reference is made has exercised | « hand.” It revealed treasures, and when placed 
all the ingenuity of commentators, and has | jp a box with a sum of even had the power of 
been referred to very many and very different | doubling it. Even in its origin it reminds us of 
plants. Those who wish to follow up the sub- | the “hand of ley": ‘which was that of some 
assume the correctness of the popular notion 
which identifies the Mandrake of Scripture 
with the Mandragora of botanists, especially as 
it is rather upon the superstitions connected 
with it than upon the plant itself that we would 
offer a few remarks 
plant given by Newton in his Herbal! to the 
Bible (i587), in which, too, we have an early 
reference to the substitution of the tubers of 
the white Bryony for the true Mandrake :— 
The following account of the Mandrake, from | ae see oven Baat mac 
a Saxon adaptation of the Herbarium of Apu- bg anon ne Sore edlars, 
leius, is s supposed to to date from about 1050, and | and h riticall lurdeins in times still in 
is given in the late Mr. Cockayne’s Saron | Some places wae es gh “Sh ater ‘this È , and 
Leechdoms. As it embodies many of the old | the feature and phisnomie of a man, resembling some- 
superstitions about this plant, we shall not | time a man and qopi nig ing neither 
nor beare the simple, 
apologise for quoting it :— ignorant people in hand that they a — out of 
‘ rago the earth in such forme, proportion, and making. Some 
ace he oun, of eon ria it is peg y Taa of this lewd rabble of shifting mates anı ; 
salt in this manner take it when thou comest to it, then ceivers impudently an y avouch pao er A 
this isa creature having life, eng 
u understandest it by this, that it shineth at ‘night et 
altogether like a lamp. When first thou: its head, | UD r the « of some. dent pemen Suat ia 
aarin its virtue is so n i crore P ra 
it with i d ‘so shalt thou delve about it as 
that thou touch it not wit iron, thou 
halt estl ivory staff delve the earth. E 
when thou seest its hands and its feet, then hath had ee er comet, eal pati : 
ti bys it up. Then take other end and ee cane ¢ o enchant, and | perforce 
o a dog's wk: so that eg hound be hungry ; to cause the partie to whom it s! segment any to doate 
saa ai before meg, so that he may not reach it | 1n amourous 'conceites an a foole’s 
he jerk up the Wort with him. this Wort itis paradise, as i 
penta it up, that it shall ry ia tie ee ot er be The use of Mandrake as an amulet or love- 
as soon as th i was formerly very common in France, 
see that jerked 
have possession of it, take it immediately in ate : ch ik Crewen 
Bad and wit tant ng ie cm om oita eee | Sos Paeet day Te would. take 100 long 
into a glass ampulla [or pitcher], and when need the present day. t wo ke ng 
m giere me thou shouldst therewith help any man, | recount all the different results which were pro- 
e ed SPESA duced by the use of the Mandrake ; those 
wishing to investigate the 
should refer to Mr. M. D. 
8 
Here follows a Oai of various methods 
we need not enter; but a 
the account of the plant maa 
various superstitions 
