a e fine shad dead! aoe, nak VIN n Pots, fro 
att 
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er this y 
Hamburgh weighing 21 atk 120Z., Teini the heaviest on record, 
The Vines = B. now offers are from eyes off the same plant. 
S. BIDE, Nursery, Farn , Surrey. 
To the Trade and Others. 
FIRST-CLASS CERIFICATE, KOFAL HORTICUL- 
NOW is the Be ones TIME to SOW, to obtain St 
x lants for Next Simmer. — o n. Strong SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874 
J PRITCHARD still offers THREE NEW 
a Fa ogee mr, Faith, Hope, a ty, be eee gg 
5 tions 1 ent t. 2 
Pikes sats care receipt of tightotn Stap, poik RUSHLIGHTS AND RUSHES. 
free. The Trade darti the dozen or 100 collection. 
Lady Gro f fi 
i and Caldecott Nurseries, Abingdon Oe og of our early days will soon 
Richmond Nurseries, Richm abet cn sere. 
PA rarua aiea ae 
e altogether a thing of the past. 
The “ piii nightlights ” of modern times have 
aN W.S STEELLE dab offer t this season, wellnigh supplanted it; and one of the many 
; o their usual large stock of ROSE, FRUIT j i 
FOREST. an and ORNAMENTAL, TREES, EVERGREEN | Advantages common to the juveniles of the 
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= in the stock, 
SHRUBS, &c., a large quant e 
| HOLLIES, fomato s feet! poy Seien lara i Troi ga rushlight, or rather of the rushlight shade. It 
: ato7 feet; a’so an immense quanti iy of Hybrid Kaas Sa —_ was not, indeed, the rushlight itself that was so 
| which they are prepared to supply at extremely low figures. objectionable, but the tall cylinder, perforated 
_ Where a uantities are required special prices will be gi with holes as big as a farthing, in which it was 
| ns, Picotees, and Pinks. de rigueur that the said rushlight should be 
; SAAC BRI BRUNNING AND yc. beg t i i 
I ie rd e burnt. It is ick that many of the readers of 
ekteni So hi of the abor ape or age | this paper must remember the rushlight-shade, 
which are now ready for sending out. List of Varieties and | and how ititi bright the round patches 
Poe ONE. i $ pair of choice Show Carma of CARNATIONS, of light in the saya of the “shade” looked to 
iS. hans of choice Show Carnatio ir h 
Í Siow Pico s, 12 Sair of ew Pinks wn ad = 2 Choice mixed | their infant eyes; at least they always did to 
Carna icotees for bor package | mine. Are rshlight-shades made now, I won- 
4 Dre reve! mags Soe peste By Tal Uinshore: quantities IIs. der? 
gy Adress, ISAAC BRUNNING anv CO., Great Yarmouth er 
EW RHODODENDRONS. | logical museum of the future, in which it well 
deserves a place. 
É; panas MARSHALL BROOKS, rich scarlet, with a bronze 
E fine and distinct. As to the rushlights themselves, a very inte- 
; LADY Y ANNET , cream dicii with a 
WORTH 
tted, a very beautiful and distinct variety. of Ireland they are still much used, their method 
_ VAUBAN, truss 
Ro ‘sepia EA T E eases of manufacture being of the simplest. The 
Tiea i bahis , beautiful, vg noo Hardy Rh 
aanhin e orerar ed, nice plants, for 5 guineas the set” | RUSh is peeled, drawn through melted tallow, 
ANTHONY WATERER, Knap Aad Niy, Woking | and — Saag for use. They w were placed in 
what termed “rush-sticks,” a homely 
HE NEW PLANT and BULB COM- equivalan os of a candlestick, sometimes 
E į; BAN jhe secured the whole iron, at others of wood. A co rrespondent o 
ATICUM sgy er scarce ees by tin: | Notes and Queries, about five years since, says 
serene They Sern errira iken fine | that rushlights, or rush-wicks, as they were 
S, 215s. 
quan f the bes il ne t zeocived, in splendid condition, of Beier 
4 not ag a ch + rad SS “ Are not yet obsolete, but are still used in cottages 
CCA. ANGUSTIFOLIA, a very scarce, graceful, hardy | and small farmhouses in the southern urrey, 
Ps Bitsy nad aoe 6d. ea oon and, no doubt, also in the neighbouring counties, 
YERINE EASTA mea 2s. 6d. each, i iron holder is somew a pair of ladies’ curling- 
tie beautiful en flowering | tongs, pr ag en Of lead ok tae of the handle-ends, 
: ore ; as a weight to press the blades t ere oe 
fixed bet 
> carlet, lighter centre, much indeed, ae is little to be added. In the West 
di 
upon the per-table. ey ma 
the holder, the expression used for lengt ning the rush 
TE Tore = a puter is mending the candle,’ and I was told by a farmer that 
i choice named H Hyacinths, f s e dı p 
i or beddin; i 
dou! 
Seale aa ata Dar sie Ita appears that the word rush was forieñý 
nd other Bulbs carly | sometimes used as a synonym of wick. Thus 
refore c 
t Baret, writing in 1580, sp of “the rush 
ia Importers $ FESS = a Market — Emate , that maintaineth the light in 
Great Varmo the lampe.” Mr. Borrer says that in 1855 rush- 
tights were almost obsolete in Sussex, although 
still to be found in a few farmhouses ; the soft 
Rush (Juncus effusus) was the only one used for 
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sorts to name, urpose, and was prepared in two wavs for 
See 5 anes Prep tm 
u species, as well as the hard 
S, in separate colours, 3s. per dozen. Ditto, | Rush (J. glaucus), and the hollow Rush (J. 
Sey ne ey Kc, to name 1s. A = Sa to | conglomeratus) were employed in Sussex in 
mixed varieti eties, 
, Bi le, White, Striped, | the manufacture of mats, and the pee: 
ue, Purple, White oe with J. effusus, in that of chair-bottom The 
French employ Rushes in making — 
mats upon which their 
resting account of them will be found at p. 740 
tion of the as namə Juncus ; and our 
favourite Jonquil (Narcissus Jonquilla) is so 
called from its Rush-like stem and leaves. The 
cream-c 
junks or Rushes (giunco 
The yee commonness of the Rush has 
passed in ; and “not worth a 
Rush” is + ordinal ‘applied to things of little 
worth. The expression is an old one, probably 
wi age and being thus trodden under 
foot b one, they naturally became 
ebien of. that which was worthless. The 
phrase is an old one ; thus Lyly. a writer of the 
Elizabethan period, says : — “Strangers have 
Bee rushes, when daily guests are not worth 
rush.” The sense in this is, how- 
ever, somewhat different from that l in which the 
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inferior ones having to dispense with this atten- 
tion, and thus “not worth a Rush.” Halliwell 
Lincoln MS., refers to a Rush ; but here pro- 
bably any common plant is equally intended. 
alee sd the way, is pa tak the origin of the 
on expression of not “caring a curse” 
for anything: kers being an old spelling of 
St trick, whose success in freeing our 
sister ile from snakes is well known, appears 
beings. A legend tells us that an Irish chief, 
having committed an act of great ieee was 
brought under the notice of t aint, who 
prayers, substituted “the tops of the R 
and the red stones of the Dinan ”—a river near - 
Kilkenny—for the name of the chief. Of course 
d so 
adition, bich may, however, be doubted by 
sceptics. 
Rushes have also their l efñcacyin 
certain di: Thus a Deigntinrewne tar © 
seases. 2 
thrush tells us to take three Rushes froma ran- © 
ning stream, and pass them ron 
the mouth of the infant affected. If they are 
| then placed again in the stream, the thrush will 
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away by the river. In the days when every 
plant had its “ virtues” it would appear that 
Rushes were not forgotten. Langham, in his 
gorap menine aeamp to tour 
In former days it was customary in Franc z 
Rush ring appears to have been employed under 
two different circumstances. When it was de- 
ployed. 
C SE pe eos of pa dela 
post of oe pre in 
raud w. 
Garden of Health (1633), tells us that the seed. 
of the c taken will cause 
