before the Botanical Congress in London. 241 
‘ before long, api ee planted in all regions where they can 
' thrive, to the great advantage of mankind in general. 
q One of the i evident effects of science has been to create 
J in the horticultural public a taste for varied and rare forms. 
Formerly in gardens there were only to be found certain kinds 
of plants which dated back to the time of the Crusades, or even 
of 2 —_ The acid of the New ge did not pro- 
in Europe. Botanists, eee were more ambitious. Their 
Millectors were numerous and daring. They en saad their her- 
baria with an infinitude of new forms, and published works 
upon exotic plants, such as those of Hernandez, Rumphius, 
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ness “ the eee es. Then ceased the reign of tulips and 
: peonies in flower ga selene Curiosity, that great incentive to 
all ais era penetrated horticulture, the change in gar- 
dens became rapid. Instead of a few hundred species such as 
2 were cultivated at a commencement of the last century, there 
& are now 20,000 or 80,000 to be found in most of the present 
world. the members of one ‘aul only bore the same name, and — 
if each individual had but one christian name, differing from — 
those es" other members of his pense —— - epelege 
