Plant Names 
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Black or Sable, and what letter was Scarlet to have ? 
The “curious ingenious Gentleman ” who published 
this plan urged also the giving of “ pompous names ” 
as more dignified ; and he made the assertion that 
French and Flemish “ Flowerists ” had adopted his 
system. 
Edging of Striped Lilies in a Salem Garden. 
These were all forerunners of Ruskin, with his 
poetical notions of plant nomenclature, such as this; 
that feminine forms of names ending in a (as Pru- 
nella, Campanula, Salvia, Kalmia) and is (Iris, Ama- 
rylis) should be given only to plants “ that are pretty 
and good”; and that real names, Lucia, Clarissa, 
etc., be also given. Masculine names in us should be 
