SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
403 
of garden 
: > ots, 
room decora! jatos in units, threes, sixs, > hie 
3 reed vases, baskets, &e., of Roses. 
any 
i Still niiti 
link R he 
INUSLS UU t 
were, into 
n 
-Of the rinia part 
d gard 
s, to be similarly em- 
į uch a Rose-t ould the 
popalar sme of any exhibition in the kingdom, if 
properly and furnished for affordin 
cilin ie for ithe eerie? and the judging of Roses in 
detail, and for exhibiti ing rare merits 
is almost a virgin min 
of Rose-growers, and 
and instruction of the public, there is no 
largely made 
rhat they 
d those who have e ch ake it, in 
regard to Roses, so sweet, so pleasant, so glorious, let 
a spring ‘ which ch into 
better, higher and more artistic future a 
e have only to do with 
their loves, a cad “the Roses, if we will but let per 
will dis E ig ene gentlen ton charity into 
 hearts—let us grow and them as we will. 
E re Tih. 
_ The Rose Controversy. —There bserva. 
occurs in Mr. W. Pau waning thee ae 
Raspinicxt shoald We be endorsed by every person who is 
interested in the culture of Roses. t 
= have never obje flori: g the 
form, &c., of the Rose, but to the neglect of the con- 
stitution of the jí ithout 
acceptable to rec 
&e., ; sa the -n an ain soils : all these things 
but then there are other requirements 
atm: 
nage rts that have been 
è proved a failure here, 
eeded where size 
n 
what opposed to the general rules of ordinary entice: 
However, without further comment, ink much 
good might be achieved if and others 
in various parts of the country tae favour the pub- 
lic, through your pag ith a list of those sorts that 
suc best in their own d The e would 
not only b on to private cultivators, but also to 
those w hem he mpi 
o grow for sale, in aiding t 
pilation of their catalogues. F. McEtray, Gr. 
ewis, es Moray Lodge, Campden Hil, 
Kensington, wW 
Tabernæmontana flore-pleno.—Messrs. Veitch 
have a _very dwarf form of Tabernzemontana_ flore- 
1 
pleno gTa- 
berne montana itisasd il asis ge Gardenia radicans 
compared with G. florida. That i ira prove a very 
valuable addition. to our white nt 
in n addition t to he dwarfs Hons: mre leew remind- 
serge old Jasminum Sambac, but growing 
es in actu Tike the Stephanotis flori- 
bu fide: It is to be hoped Messrs. Veitch will distri- 
bute it as soon as possible. M. A, 
East gored Giants (p. 344). pases meanings of 
ho other names o onum Bistorta 
e, but they are a air subjects for 
st heard I lived in 
cha’ 
hat, under several forms, i very c 
in Cumberland, and not aly. ix but Sat | it i is con 
nected with names used in other counties, and w 
old names, which at an oe appear to have different 
E The various forms 
rs in Cumberla a as furn 
akm ondents, are Easterman Giants, Easter Ma 
pre Rastectia Jiands, oor these po pi ag = 
r Giants and Eastern ee me 
Easter Ledges is also in use. 
appeared to me that 
slightly on the ee man, 
Easter ne ts, but ce since heard it 
nounced Easter 
n I first pra a 
pe irly pas but 
spondent a T n is: owever m corre- 
g as an erb 
I believe, considered a benee 
com 
ac 
call hire Pencui ha name is 
really Easter Mangiants and not Easterman Giants I 
have jida acute, and I believe ‘* Easter” refers to 
se partly use other names of Polygonum 
Patient Dock in Cheshire at the present day, 
and Patience Dock in the North (Ha ). Turne a 
w e his Herbal in 1551, gives ‘‘ Pationes ; 
an (1597) gives ‘* as a Cheshi 
name; and all these may very y refer to the 
immediately after our Saviour’s 
Passion. The re ” or ** Passi ns” is, 
was, 
oi anoth of v 
frequent occurrence ngs country people 
rior, a good authority, derives these names ve 
differently. 
gly to ion 
iants ns. i me 
its oldest English names we still find the idea of 
as season ; at any rate wo aste 
enters into the urner gives ‘* Astrologia,” 
h may Latin word, or ma: 
oined n 
a very likely is, corruption of the Latin Aris: 
tolochia, a name transferred from another pla 
Lyte (1578) give ‘** Oyster cloit 5 5 
Woodville (Med. Bot.) gives ‘* Osteriacs” and ‘‘ Os- 
sia oe ee so a or abbreviates these 
h.” ks th = viene ick” is 
a corruption of pine Sre ** Ost s, however, 
has JERS. ema for pring: and ‘* Ostr c” would 
“ Easter-leek” or ‘* ee ster- lan anim 
a pip be convert ** Osteria 
ps eer “t Oyster! ee The Cum 
“ East ” bears, it must be 
simnibanity to‘ Astrologia.” 
with the name, and that ea may have formerly 
rta, 
which is is now lost. Onet 
The ae y ayrim other English na 
of them to ny tano whatever with 
the one which i is rs subject of these n 
Kiln-drying Rye-grass Seeds in Ireland.—At 
a meting a agers merchants engaged in the 
sale tr held to consider a letter 
signed Ya Ventilation,” which appeared in the Gar- 
eners Chronicle ge rie aon inst., and wage stated 
re rea ag ng ring Rye-grass seed is 
carrie 
to a les siderable extent in ha `N orth of 
Ireland, $ was resolved 
‘¢ That the said letter is calculated seriously to injure 
seed trade in 
the Rye-grass s in Ireland, and so far as Belfast 
is concerned the charge is utterly without foundati 
and we emphatically deny that any such practices are 
carried on here ; and the writer, in justice is bound 
ona he town or place in which he states this manipu- 
ri 
this statement which he has given to that of his < anony- 
Samuel M. Causland, F.P., Chairman, Belfast, 
Sept. 22. 
The Determination of Edible Fungi, eo hs 
K 297).—My ey to pos peer ngton Smith 
hort and courteo in the Bulletin F jra 
Botanical Society of Franc was penn a view 
y to an article in the Yours sat E Aprii 
Praligns 1869, p. 147, ‘eating forth (whether ere 
full 
or not o not know, aving see 
English original) the mycological doctrines of 
ith, laureate of the Royal Society of Agriculture, 
and which appeared to me to contain some dan 
errors, which it was desirable to prevent circulating 
among the public. Is the author of this doctrine the 
s Mr. Wo ene Smith has a m 
ot ime columns, or er person of the same name? 
I do not know kiied: this is so or not, val gee ra 
surprised, for -non mor 
amour propre of a wounded auth 
examine some of Mr. Smith’s ae —1. Mr. 
pores 
so saying, but I persist in ei opinion, found n 
personal eaae which nd confirmed 
me anhon ws (bope ries) that I have been 
eillé, Cordier, Kickx, 
includes some very poisono 
mio ty of authors, including 
cially M. De Seynes (Yor. Mycol. ag Cardy , place 
the genus us Russula in in the white-spored group (Leuco- 
well aware that forty yea ree 
species (in spite of Mr. Smith) ; but obser 
inion as to this point, and many of them say, 
perhaps with truth, that this alleged colour of the 
majority of — 
. 
. Smith says I am 
ricus nein osus S orda 
Aga 
well-known to be n 
Pe son ge r: 
Paides, I refer Mr. Smith to the opinion of one of 
his learned fellow- countrymen, re Ber 
npa nt judge in sot 
ough Agaricus pat anise 
injured specimens were taken, | 
some inconvenienc myself : 
also 
