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ought, by some means or other, to be brought within the reach of every 
young gardener. There would be no necessity for limiting the books to 
those immediately connected with gardening, except that necessity should 
arise from limited finances. On the contrary, if good works on general 
subjects could be introduced, all the better; for, in many rural districts it 
is even yet by no means easy to get at them. It may be said, this is a little 
like reckoning without our host — where is the money to come from ? Partly 
from subscriptions among the men themselves, and, I think we may safely 
say, in nine cases out of ten, partly from the kindness of the owner of the 
estate. If the gardener would take the trouble fairly to represent the 
matter, I have the fullest confidence that there are very few gentlemen who 
would not be glad of the opportunity to give their countenance and aid. 
There is one point on which I hope a concluding remark may be forgiven. 
If a gardener would really act the part of a friend to his journeymen, he 
must make it, a study to be at all times communicative. Strictness is neces- 
sary, but it need not merge into stiffness or reserve. Such a deportment 
will never lower a man in the view of his inferiors, but must infallibly 
enhance their attachment and respect. 
F. H. JOYNES, 
in London Florist. 
ON THE TRUE NAME OF VICTORIA AMAZONICA (Pceppig). 
This plant was first described and named, scientifically, by Prof. Poeppig, 
in Froriep's Notizen, vol. 35, p. 9, a volume of which I am unable to give 
the date, but it is cited by Poeppig himself in his Journey*, vol. 2, p. 432, 
published at Leipzig in 1835. The name there given to it is Euryale 
AMAZONICA. 
In the Report of the Seventh Meeting of the British Association (Septem- 
ber, 1837), London, 1838, the following passage occurs : " Mr. J. E. Gray 
exhibited the drawing of Victoria Megina, Schomb., sent by Mr. Robert 
Schomburgk, from Demerara, to the Botanical Society of London, and read 
his account of the discovery and the description of this interesting plant." 
*Eeise in Chile, Peru, und auf dem Amazonenstrome, "wahrend der Jahre, 1827—1832, von 
Eduard Poeppig, Leipzig, 1835. 
