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The Finest Hardy Plant of the Year. 
ELIANTHUS:' CALIFORNICUS 
INSIGNIS (Orro).—See sneer ¢ Fey his grees 
niig ae Oe 
JE a en Is. ree 
for Early Blooming. 
AMES MIOLDER can supply mir ane 
Plants = Six Distinct hs npg at 6s., 98.; s. per 
dozen. Also. oo Plants, taat, sorts, 
for 408. cash. “Baskets and Packing in TAA 4 
own Nurse Readin ng. 
N.B.—HUNT’S SUPERB SWEET WILLIAM SEED, 
1s. per “packet, a -fre 
wer Roots. 
5. WILLIA AMS | pers to greet ae gg that his 
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ROOTS containing a criptive List oC Choice Hyacinths, 
Tulips, Narc cissus, soy &c., also a Select List of Fruit 
Trees, Roses, Vines, &c.,is now ready, t free toall app ee 
Victoria and Paradise N urseries, bop er Holloway, 
AMES DICKSON” inp SSONS? Stock of 
et? FOREST and FRUIT TREES, ROSES, EVE 
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to visit their « extensive Nurseries, which can “now be reached on 
their new private road from the foot idge way 
Bridge. Priced LISTS, and all information, on application. 
Newton Nurseries, Chester. 
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3 Guineas each. 
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(GENERAL NURSERY STOCK. A fine 
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LISTS, Wholesale : oa Retail, rowed applica 
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HIRTY TONS ot. ZAA AE GRASS 
e best Foreign, 
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at As pi ii gelire free i in EEN st yen 
of L Be an A tad A 
HAEL GRANT, Elm Grove 
Camellias and 
VAN GEERT, Nurseryman, t 
aa An toa aint his Customers and the Trade 
cy a ded ee = — is un- 
ivery on 
nly fng, and rea wath ka so 47, £8, aad it oy ay 
ogee! AZALEAS, with bud, splendid ae from ta tb, 
47 to £12 per 100. 
Early Deas hasten oe to secure a choice. 
Cash, or refer rence 
To the Trade ony 
JONGKINDT CONTIGS 
HOLESAL E LIST, including a fin 
Ap wa Faas and Plums, Moss Roses, at 
Standard Diel i 
Roses, Dielytra a, Hoteia japonica, 
mval majalis, and other Hard y Perennials, Bulbs, and 
Tuberous-root is now semi, and will be 
free pplication. 
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EW SWEET-SCENTED RRODVDEN 
DRONS now offered for the first time, the most novel 
= beautiful hee yee NEW Lis. A. Descriptive, Priced and a 
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'UGENE VERDIER; 
HORTICULTURIST, 72, unois, Gai d'Ivry, 
has the honour to announce to his numerous friends that 
SPECIAL ‘ALOGU E of JIOLI is now to be had, 
(post paid); also that 
og —s 3 
bee gore eee the ee: erage in 
Pie: at west possible price 
— ‘af O mim see Catalogue). 
et Gardeners, and Others. 
J TCHELES SCHAMPION of ENGLAND 
—Joun MITCHELL, — from the Busi- 
tity of ay Seed to dispose of. a 
ill be ay in X lb., % Ib. 
tto any p part 
world on receipt of Post Office Orders or ere 
JOHN MITCHELL, Ponders’ End, M iddlese: 
eee a aw 2S pee 
ow be supplied of 
name) :— 
LY BATTERSEA 
he Royal „Norfolk 
orwich, are now Book 
: ig „which See a Wert an ed oF se 
ith fall pe E 
s usual discount to the Trade. 
after Nos eater I next, a a 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER +19, 1874. 
FLOWERS AT FUNERALS. 
HE use of flowers at funerals is th 
ancient and general. At the present day 
nothing is more usual than a wreath or a cross 
of blossoms placed upon the coffin lid ; an 
this custom is not confined to any sect or creed, 
but finds its place in all. It is unnecessary to 
enter into any dissertation upon the symbolism 
or fitness of such a custom, both are obvious 
enough and ak for themselves ; but a few 
collected notes upon the plants principally used 
table post- 
” 
? 
August I). 
Among the plants in most general use in 
former days, and retained in eae districts up 
Refer- 
himself mentions it in more than one passage, 
as in Romeo and Fuliet :— 
“ Dry up your tears, and — a Rosemary 
On this fair corse,” —(Act sc. 4.) 
From this passage we see fiat Rosemary was 
used not only at the funeral itself, but also for 
placing on the corpse; an Dekker, in one of 
his plays, words—“ My Paci 
was taken out of- — ef ‘be stuck with 
Rosemary.” The riter, speaking of the 
Plague Year, says, eraty. which had wont 
to be sold for twelve pence an armefull, went 
now at six shillings a handfull.” Gay, in the 
Shepherd’s Calendar, has the following lines :— 
rt “nt their love, the nei ighbours far and near 
Followed, with wistful look, the datigets bier : 
Sprige ‘d Rosemary l 
While dismally the parson walked before. 
It is T ais the North of England that 
this custom is 
E purpose, à is aride Aa uncërtain. 
cannot have the same as that which 
induced the andani. Rowints, PKI use of 
Cypress, “which, being once cut, will never 
flourish nor grow again, as an emblem of their 
dying for ever ;” but rather as a symbol of 
immo! ity, which, as we l.see,.1s., the 
meaning o of other plants employed at funera Is. 
Ac to the British Apollo for 1708 (where 
constant 
obsequies of a deceased person ?”), 
custom had its rise from a pe ee A alexi 
mick, or preservative virtue, 
against pestilential Baga. 
smelling erenn at funerals was 
thought a powerful defence against the morbid 
effluvias of the corpse; nor is it for the same 
reason less customary to burn Rosemary in the 
chambers of the sic 
Box was very commonly used at funerals, and 
formed a tray or plate, upon which lay a heap 
of sprigs of Box. Each relative has taken one 
sprigs is placed at the door of the house from 
which the coffin is taken up, and that each 
person takes a sprig and throws it into the 
grave. 
Other evergreens were used at funerals, the 
ing of which 
in ain History of Somersetshire, says that it 
ual for mourners to carry 
Yew i in mente Kr to the grave, and to deposit 
them therein; and B 
common in Suffolk. 
s “ 
mblem of immortality ; and this society em- 
slat at funerals a tree which, 
present knowledge goes, is used by no other 
body—the so-called Acacia iobiols Pseud- 
Acacia). The use CO i 
general in this country. 
an account of i 
of the late 
Mayor of Woodst member 
and slips 
It appears that there is a 
asons that th 
e cross 
melenek 
that the 
tradition among the F 
> our Saviour was TAE ot kim Acacia 
Robinia is an Ameri can tree: and could not by 
any posibilii occur in Palestine, it is regarded 
by them as sacred on that account. Thus we 
read in an old French work, that “the Acacia 
, because it is 
which ’ Palestine 3 full. ”(!) In Germany the 
avenues leadi e Catholic churches are 
often ee Robinia ; and the- above ot 
reason is assigned for its employment in such a 
pli ; : : 
Another tree which was es in funerals 
rather, which was buried in the tombs of certain 
p 
of archæologists at Chester. 
the tomb of Ralph Higden, who was formerly a 
monk of that town, and whose burial-place was 
discovered during the restoration of the Cathe- 
dral, there was found, besides the usual accom- 
Bloxam,” says the Standard, “ some 
curious particulars respecting this custom.” 
