January. 1909.1 



Agriculture — Tools, etc. 



Machine for cutting guinea grass. 



Agv. News, 1904, p. 21. 

 Ploughs and ploughing. Queensl. 



Agr. JI. June 1904, p. 457, 

 Agricultural tools. " T.A." Apr. 1906, 



p. 199. 



A Icohol.— Manufacture, etc. 



A review of the present condition of 

 the spirit industry in the Philip- 

 pines, Manila Daily Bull. 3.11.07, 

 "T.A." July 1908, p. 63. 



Aleurites.— cf. Oils. 



The Oandlenut tree. Ind. Agric Mar, 

 1908, p. 81. "T.A." Aug. 1908, p. 120. 

 Les Aleurites de Tonkin. Bull. Ec. 



Indoch. 1908, p. 425. 

 Aleurites moluccana. Agr. Ledger 

 4 of 1907. V. P, Series 103, 



Allspice. — 



Pimento growing in Jamaica, do 

 VII 1908, p. 5. "T.A." June 1908, 

 p. 545, 



The pimento industry in Jamaica. 

 "T.A." Supp. Dec. 1907, p. 134. 

 Avidropogon.—Misc. & General, cf. Citro- 

 nella, Lemongrass. 

 Kuskus root. "T.A." Apr. 1908, p. 

 319 (from Agr. News.) 

 Annatto.— cf. Dyes. 



Cultivation and utilisation of annat- 

 to. Imp. Inst. Bull. 6, 1908 p. 171. 

 "T.A." Nov. 1908, p. 418. 



Argania.—et Oils. 



L'Argan. Les vegetaux utiles^ de 

 l'Afrique trop. francaise II. 1907. 



Argemone.— cf. Weeds. 



Argemone mexicana. Agr. Ledg. 57 



of 1907. V, P. Series 104. "T.A." 



Sept. 1908, p. 215. 

 Note on Argemone mexicanan Maiden. 



Agr. Gaz. N. S. W. Oct. 1908, p. 



829. 



Arrowroot.— 

 A leaflet on Arrowroot. Drieberg. 

 "T,A." July 1908, p. 65. 



"THE QUEEN OP FLOWERS." 



A sudden gusli of light and odours bland, 

 And lo— the Rose ! the Rose ! 

 The rose has very justly been desig- 

 nated the Queen of Flowers. So full of 

 beauty and charm is the rose, and so 

 numerous are the points ot interest 

 connected with it, that chapters could 

 be written about it. In all ages and 

 by universal consent, throughout the 

 civilised world, undisputed precedence 

 among flowers has been conceded the 



73 Miscellaneous. 



rose, " Queen of them all." The favour- 

 ite flower for all time, as such it has 

 place in general literature that no othe 



giant can rival. In the sacred writings, 

 y classical authors, by the poets of all 

 countries, this "Queen of Flowers" i 

 the epitome of beauty and fragrance, 

 the emblem of refined sensual enjoyment, 

 "richer and sweeter far than aught 

 before." The rose is woven in the 

 ancient Greek Anthologies. In the 

 Planudean Anthology occur some beauti- 

 ful couplets ascribed to more than one 

 writer in which the wish is breathed : 



Oh that 1 were yon blushing rose, 



Which even now thy hands have pressed. 

 That 1 might love in sweet repose, 

 Reclining on thy snowy breast ! 



Plato presents a lovely picture of the 

 God of Love laid asleep among roses, 

 with the bees settling upon his lips ; and 

 there is a favourite passage from Julian : 

 Twining a wreath, 1 found one day, 

 Love that among the roses lay. 



The rose was dedicated to Awrora as 

 the emblem of youth ; to Venus of 

 beauty ; and to Cupid of fugacity and 

 danger. The latter is said to have given 

 it as a bribe to Harpociates the God of 

 Silence, hence the saying "under the 

 rose." Modern feelings have run into 

 the same sort of am oious fancy as that 

 of the earlier writers, for have we not 

 Romeo in Shakespeare expressing the 

 wish " Oh that I were a glove upon that 

 hand," etc. Burns who it is thought 

 knew little or nothing of the Greek 

 anthologists seems to have fallen into 

 their style and instinctively adopted 

 their spirit : 



Oh that my love were yon red rose 

 That grows upon the castle wa', 

 And I myself a drop of dew, 

 Into her bonny breast to fa'! 



And we have writers all along descant- 

 ing on the admirable qualities of the 

 rose. It has been the subject of scientific 

 monographs and of floricultural disquisi- 

 tions, and many are the writings extant 

 about it. The species which has been 



CULTIVATED FROM THE HIGHEST 

 ANTIQUITY, 



is supposed to be Rosa Centifolia, the 

 Cabbage or Province Rose, a flower 

 which possesses in an eminent degree 

 the admirable qualities of the tribe 

 Roses have been grown for so many 

 centuries and have been crossed and 

 recrossed so often that it is difficult to 

 refer the cultivated forms to their wild 

 prototypes. The older roses are thought 

 to have orginated from R, gallica, a 

 native of Central and Southern Europe, 



