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SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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' The Three best New Plants of the season are :— 
pie NIA BREARLE 
DIP REARLEYANA, 
TON PSP 
Dice. 2 bong 3 
"om 
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Plants, Kin oad, Chelsea, London 
et DICKSON AN > SONS’ poot of 
D'OS RADCLYFFE Fer ip COS 
ILLUSTRATE 
AUTUMN CATALOGUE 
HYACINTHS, ; ‘ULIPS, CROCUS, peach &c., 
is now ready, and can be had gratis and post 
on application. 
Hi P Holborn, London, W.G. 
Seed Grounds— 
129, 
e, 1874-75. 
N  URSERYMAN, Ghen}, 
Belgi has m 
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taining all t the leading Novelties and Genera Stock. 
May be had A application bat his Age: 
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eT ee 
Messrs, R. SILB 
ten ove WER 
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Victoria and Paradise si waa Holloway, N. 
Pelargoniums for Early Blooming. 
AMES HOLDER can supply Extra pkg 
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Also, fho o Pils idistinor sort, 
os. cash, “Baskets Soe Packing i include 
n Nurse 
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The Fine: T ner the Year. 
ELIANTHUS CALIFORNICUS 
_ INSI De Ne sa a of this aoe 
oes nerin on kek 
S, IS. 
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WILLIAMS bees s. ast ann 
ANNUAL CATALOGI È of DUT 
dozen. 
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pain FANTON i FRES. E ae 
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he best Foreign, 
at £15 per dehvered fi ents ae Seed 
Also a a few t va pakra arai AMERI AN “RO E POTATOS, 
at sopa " pamilo; & cay, n Aid 
MICHAEL GRANT, “Ele e Nu Posea 
ROSES for na RAN &c 
e following E of © Hor , all of the firet order, 
fre Pitan the, Nurseries of t rticultural Establishment 
a ARAI VERDIER, e NÉ, and selection can be 
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» Frederick Wood Antoinette Strozzio 
w He ey ee “ors i ae de Charles 
» La pie 
» Mak, Mona d Adarjon imari de Duche 
Ma; H: "(not P.) Mdme. Rivière 
Monsi ae Y. Teas 
All athe French varieties are al: 
to be obtained. 
yee eta) with ger errs Cae and mode 
of forwarding will be sent, 5 er CATA- 
z> or 
thousan beg: ariety), pos i 
gg a T Fics ek Petition oa ee 
Dunois, 
re ano October are the Best Months 
ele our 
L» PRIZE. se) soa ow 
from the i 
pee ix 
CY CLAMEN 1 hite 
swectisoenitklij ? X 36 
oR regs grandilorum (dick red ee eee 6 
> 8 .. ee | 
> 5, carmineum (carmin: ec) ar 6 
+s »„ maculatum (crimson spotted) < T 6 
» 9) purpureum eee, purple) 3°6 
» s Varlegatum (white edged, striped 0 or tae 2 6 
coccineum fate a crimson n) 3 ő 
The above ei pte . 21 0 
ixed aye 
quotations to the Trad 
F. aE AND coe New and Rare See a onn and 
Growers, Royal Herts Seed Establishment, St. Albans 
sae 
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874. 
RUSH-BEARING. 
t Di E long endurance of an established custom 
; is a phenomenon which would be remark- 
able were it not so common, and so generally 
recognised as to be hardly noticeable. Itis not, 
perhaps, to be wondered at that many of the 
external forms and signs ofa faith which for 
more than years has ceased to be that of 
ee should still remain among us. The 
an Catholic religion, by its “outward and 
visible ri always appealed to ee cone 
d imagination of the people. It was not 
much an ANE ii asa popular ereed; and r 
ARE pe me that, after a pre-eminence 
any of its external evidences 
should still KIMIK, and be j T by people 
many cases n whence 
their customs have been enok Thus a 
Cheshire dairymaid, if her butter will not 
tħe churn b g 
the thumbs; indeed, the old belief in the 
rauy of the “holy sign” is retained in 
places and in ny ways ; and this 
y 
clinging to the old faith is in itself by no means 
wond erful, There is naturall 
tendency i 
ies only very “advanced thinkers ” 
gather < uer ; and this is shown i in 
the “Catholic Ch urch, when estab- 
lishing or power, aimed rather at ae adip 
and Christianising existing custom 
destroying ten me ogether —a ea which 
has been cen ‘by some, but which mani- 
fested paiaka knowledge of human nature. 
o this is owing the circumstance that so many 
of the Church festivals correspond with heathen 
feasts of earlier date, and that so many of our 
popular customs may be traced back until we 
lose them in the shadows of the past, 
But these remarks may seem to some to 
rench rather upon the ground of theological 
sscuseieh than to refer to Rushes and Rush- 
bearing, and yet it is the bitike subject that gave 
rise to them. Rush-bearing is one of those 
customs traceable to a remote date, which still 
remain among us (see p. 366), and that, not in 
distric 
retained ; ;” but it would beers difficult oe give 
i n for the abandonment of certain 
customs shd the retention of others e can- 
not even say of the customs what is sad of the 
ceremonies, namely, that they are “ so set forth, 
that every man may understand what they do 
mean, and to what use they do serve,” for their 
and their 
meaning in many instances is obscure 
use altoge unknown. Still, having 
“reverence to the i A 
inquiry into the origin of some of these old 
cus 
pi yo 
e country ct, but in one at least of 
it commercial centres of the North. In | 
such close proximity as on the occasion of a 
pilgrimage by railway, but it may be doubted 
apma the appearance of the Rush-cart with 
t 
retains the custom of bygone years ; the 
ation of work during the er 
part of “Whit week,” as the week following 
Whit Sunday is called, is very striking to a 
Londoner, and, like the Rush-bearing, no doubt 
takes its origin from ecclesiastical custom. It 
is pretty clear, from the frequent connection of 
Rush-bearing with the “ wakes ”—a term w 
was formerly applied to the kek: of the saint 
to whom & was dedicated—that it 
originated in the practice of bringing Rushes 
to the c 
in houses and churches has been referred to at 
p- 328, but the great antiquity ob the custom is, 
enerally Relcrenicns 
others, of supplying straw or Rushes 
for his chamber. iam of Malis 
tells us that shortly after he was born, being 
laid on the floor, the little William firmly grasped 
the Rushes with both his hands, which caused 
his shows that the custom was general 
Normandy, and it may have been introduced 
thence to our shores. Stra d Rush 
stephen says that St. Th 
reat r of Eeihana, caused his dining-room 
o be strewn with po straw or hay cos A 
b 
green branches ol 
r; while we are told that his 
Momiak in meno 
es in su 
of “St. Mary-at Hill, 
In 1493 it appears, fa the whirls 
ardens’ accounts ary- in 
At "St Margaret’ es, Westminster, 
i ushes agains 
Bn: he first S 
t 
ed th 
z progresses” of James I. 
there is an entry ik Assheton’s Piesina eich 
es : was a Rush- 
—* About four o’clock there 
d pipeing a affore the Ki 
but much less  solemnit 
h looks aoe ont co i oe 
be- 
ir p to fall into disuse. Even down to a very 
late iod tre official situation of "a Rush- 
stewer” remained on the list of the Royal 
house 
Mr. Grindon has pan Lage z Ba 
selecti ssages Shakspeare in 
hich the strewing of Rashi i in hontes is men- 
si ones 
almost every poet of the Shakspear 
essary. 
ps, I may just say en passant 
been trying to fin rlii er 
Herbals which v 
