386 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [SEPTEMBER 26, 1874, 
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is under the name | It is, however, pncipany i in Lancashi ire and porig ve s precisely t o panan a Peo DOL of a the 
at all here, I think a a u from Bulleyn, | Cheshire that the cus of Rush-bearing ee oe ae ail ena e a ee frien Me a 
ge; pi e edi tinctly. opposed | lingers. In most slacks 5 thie observance is ve a ar prosent pindi Aiei PAA Mie — 
at p- 370, seems | Ae ioral sip ed Ha the | similar in general features ; an ti slowing jeaves, short pedicel, and smaller bulb crowned 
to the idea that Hinge ha aed 5 AAA sement of | account of the Rochdale Roa beanies in 1825, | 55 in A. setosa, with a dense circle versal 
en seventh edition o ti that “ a sweet- | fr ‘one’s Year Book, will give a sufficiently | bristles. It also comes near re ara aig g l in 
Britis e OR j a A = “ea aoa she churches | accurate notion of what took place elsewhere | now to think that the plant figured under 
scented pei is u a ie anche. c countries, ese occasio name in the Æ a rida oi i is ae ssa 
- from the original flaccida of Jac 
S 5 oe th R h- t E 
nor is the cu al obsolet Eng The Rushes are laid transversely Tan ae A Prenk Tcones;'tab. 444. TE $ Refuzi 
no little art is required. ; 
stom his, 
Si : ; | knives to the fo m pla aot A might 
land”; but this notice is too recent and too | and are cut by sharp pas Bec os they are termed, e aad akerai is discoverer, ia aer, cod a 
vague to be of much importance. T i this re formed of the largest Rushes tied up in bundles of | shall _ es Gace pe es —— aoa ida, Cooperi, 
‘hey ni 
make a i 5 4 
h is preity a nw canter of sees widely in gardens, and has never been de- A 
; kpe ea and watches, tastefully displayed. hera iaon appears to be an appreciably distinct 
Great diii exist ters on record, i 
no doubt, however, that Acorus—t t two inches in diameter. These bolts are, as the | and fibr very n alike flower and inflor- 
igression—was employed at Norwich, although oni Ps making proceeds, affixed to rods fixed in. the | escence, bat depuis by bulb MiA leaf c charada 
I have not succeeded in finding an old reference | four corners of the cart, and carved to kari form ny vee The following is a description of A. fibrosa from 
to its use. Miss Pratt says :—“ From time | When the cart is finished, tebane an eg ‘different living examples :—Bulb small, firm, ovoid, crowned 
im: ial it has been used for strewing the | rated with apron? ie ich of Oak, and 2inches 
floors o of Norwic been Mee: bans the top. The carts are someti long ; leaves two, _cotemporary with t : 
thrown on some of the adjoining streets on the reo by horses gaily caparisoned, but more frequently | te “ag a foot o e long, 3 inch ek 7 ‘te 
day of choosing the mayor of that city, and also | by young men, to the number of twenty or thirty couple, | base, bright gree gies. nasone to the point, 
on other festival days, while common Rushes | profusely adorned with ribands and tinsel, «xc. They | d i Eatecslial down the fac scape slender, 
h nerally preceded by men with horse-bells about << terete, g ee: I icontoag ; raceme =y 3—4 3 
and sed eee a ingle with it on these | are ge y prec j : Soe oak le A 
i en en on its fragra them, grotesquely jumping from side ac E e, and Jinging | flow with c j pedicels jane 1 lines- long ; 
by it cameo “A he old cathedral seems the bells. After these is ansi of music, and nt append abet adir pier ines long ; pe nth 9— 10 lines A 
becomes stronger, an a E f a set of morris dancers (but without the ancient bo sae long, outer divisions oblong, bright yellow in the two 
filled-with incense.” ‘This mixture ot common of bells), followed by young women f ing gaa ect outer thirds, green in the centre, inner divisions boat- — 
Rushes renders it probable t iese WOS || Cheti comen the bone leer i ne va rofusely | shaped, persistently valvate, ith an inflexed tip 
i redominant feature, and that the | joined by na riband ji re wea (which H ed sates ne “bev a ; deep, filamen fattened, ¥ inch 
local abund th t Flag led to its covered w Roses, stars, &c,, of tinse : 
abundance o g g part is called horse-gold), and which, being viewed when long, the three dater enti out anthers ; 
well, It would seem that the i it. dazzles the eve. The banners | style cc miO, miket fanger than the 
3 é : the sun shines upon it, style p 
custom is now extinct; the Rev. G. Miles | are generally from four to five yards ‘broad, and six to | oblong ovary. F. G. B. 
Cowper, in vol. ix. of the Sussex Archeological eight yards long, arte on either side in the centre a A 
Collections, says that, up to the passing of the | painting of Britan a, the King's arms, or some ot a a. CALCARATUM, Hort, 
i cm a Tt hee | ge ga oie procession fan by men WH | r am inti r for a very fine 
Norwich was anea to pay to the sub- ong cat oa Le On ee front of some carts is specimen of this Ss s in ‘all ites pe as it is 
ti 
= Strewing thr floor of the cathedral with Rushes 
: yor from the western Tor to = between the young men re the ee it seems best to place its characte í 
wg the ma: ein ey, chai in , : villages w’ ; segs egei : a resembles closely the original S verg = kipa = i 
‘hoe ’ senor cada not aapeli ppens that, when read throu ee aem on roo s, in the shape a 
A è Norwich, correspondent of M ‘ga Mas two of them meet in the street a scuffle takes place, and pistine ie of Ss Jeaves, and shows the same tendency 
, writing in 1831, shows that the many bloody noses are the result. Six or seven Rush- is e. but-both thie ame 
was not then employed. He says :—“ Iti 1s still carts are frequently in the town on the third Monday in to change 5> mamas Ana n much „larger; a 
the custom to strew Norwich: Cathedral on the | August, which is the day for strewing: them. A collec- | rosettes bricht n with’. eee 
sd ui í i tion is made by each party from the gentry and other moderately grao not a bright green, 
mayor's day, or guild day, out of compliment to | ! Nitin X: k PAER o 5 cactifice very freely at | distinct red-brown mark at the tip, and be panicle 
the corporation, who on that day attend the the shiine of Sir Jobe Barleycorn. The displays oe very | is more luxuriant, spicy e flowers are a deader colour, — 
cathedral service. I must here observe that it gay, and afford much gratification to stran who | How the name originated and where the plant was 
is the sweet-scented ne je orus Calamus, ea never before witnessed a Rush-bearing. The Saele is | procured from, I do not — but very likely 
should be used on eget Ae ost: whose ro general in the months of July, August, and September. | of your readers will be able to z 
wh ised give o very powerful ‘ee Those held round oe = a7 a T Rosettes 5—6 inches broad, s sadat laxly 
fragrant odour, ALm E ao se that of | Min! ev oh eee >») | leafy shoots and ee om us stalked fant rosettes. 
S 1 bein 
tine and Whitworth, t peters nerdy Ş ach D ok Ru ong Leaves about 100 to a rosette, one ae reach- 
called a ‘featherer,’ and it was one of ates men | ing a Re inches nae = a 3 lines broad three- 
lost his li rous and melee > 
Mi This naii from the great demand the 
in our bre! 
q the 
on Easter Monday in April, 1794 or 1795. He resided at | glaucous, ‘especially when young ke in face, ni 
Marland, and for a number o y erwards, in nt to a cuneate base broad, furnish 
from the grea R i th, each of the young men w distinct cusp and a Na 
entrance of the ear tet : but are now | but it is : Rush-cart from ae arland wore a black scarf; | down the edge witha regular fringe of minu! 
> : i 1 ow disc . ex 
: paaa ika = peri alga ape = The custom has been observed within the | others. Stem den i es long Ds 
ve: ngs per ann ren ow Y | last twenty years, and may probably still be the panicle begins, covered with ascending imbricate 
the dean and chapter for this purpose.” | retained in many ir towns and villages | la al 2 lanceolate acute leaves tu sa 
_ This is one of the most recent instances of y ob tne t ‘cle , 
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strewing in thuzches): but the custom fD Pi iste f | Close ing sec 
eee oe time in many other places. ender erbyshere; i e ain districts -Ot | ones. forked. low down, 
Thus the ghee near Maldon, Yorkshire and a canarini and epore eb i aoe minute. Sepals, petals, 
with gen ach 1 
pews 
land, especially at Grasmere and Ambleside A uloso-pilose, — 
PRES | In the latter r place kacan] of flowers have ae depts joined sdi m ies finely glan Petals twice 
Rushes. Thi 
Á ‘ taken the plac ese are carri the se ull red: with n keel on the face 
ee oe | to th cha ch i ; ay: sepa white y : oe 
; ; l; ay, sermon (4 
some allusion is usually made to the | gynous scales, minute, pan; enti 
The use of pied o religious occa- 
£ ; ta ti W ` Trir ity 1 
‘Monday, the day of their annual meeting for 
the election of officers, with green Rushes, an: 
d 
the Tinig: puns at Hull os aba pide sions is still retained aw — of France, 
anes mcs. about 1849, says that the floor | 25 2t Caen, in Norm oe ere the streets 
a small chapel at Donnington in Lincolnshire, are strewn va Acar for pae inabile of the 
s Day Eee Dic. or C s Chris 
apa METE Ra = I had in ended kó ‘include i in this paper some 
notes on th -lore and popular uses of 
Sagas a | Rushes ; but it has already spread to so great 
i a length that these m ust be reserved for an 
occasion. 
viction af por py ME +» [—Purslane. Eps.]) as I have, 
sham and some of the en disco have enough to feed all the cee 
body in a field, and ‘ chia meek lookynge abou | 
hym. ym o aad po me Rushes of ye parlour RS i 
in his slippars,’ whence the lud AE 8 margi 
em | te ap Egas eiri ‘he pond ulbo parvo ovoideo fibris strictis setosis Copiosis coronato ; | extevioribns aig ural, 1o Canbus consim milibus; 
body. an ATE ee o, pps Ep Š to d monat | pare 2 synanthiis teretibus — pedalibus me facie profunde xte / lso, nidio inferior iis $ 
instructo, idio, 
iculatis ; scapo tereti pedali, apice laxe racemoso, fi 
manuseript cited -by Ducange, the almoner | pan pedicels is brevibus cernuis ; bracteis la nceolatis ; oribus et 
i anthio flavo, segmentis e exterioribus terti trali. viri 
0 fin s for the choir and f filamentis exterioribus sterilibus ; st tylo pelea ái 
on she greater pas ovario superante Š A 
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