Introducers of Exotic Flowers, etc. I4I 
the most innocent luxuries of the people. The project of 
a new tax, or an additional consumption of ardent spirits, 
or an Act of Parliament to put a convenient stop to popu- 
lation by forbidding the banns of some happy couple, 
would be more congenial to their researches; and they 
would leave, without regret, the names of those whom we 
have held out to the grateful recollections of their country. 
The Romans, who, with all their errors, were at least 
patriots, entertained very different notions of these intro- 
ducers into their country of exotic fruits and flowers. Sir 
William Temple has elegantly noticed the fact. “The 
great captains, and even consular men, who first brought 
then over, took pride in giving them their own names, by 
which they ran a great while in Rome, as in memory of 
some great service or pleasure they had done their country ; 
so that not only laws and battles, but several sorts of 
apples and pears were called Manlian and Claudian, Pom- 
peyan and Tiberian, and by several other such noble 
names.” Pliny has paid his tribute of applause to 
Lucullus, for bringing cherry and nut-trees from Pontus 
into Italy. And we have several modern instances, where 
the name of the transplanter, or rearer, has been preserved 
in this sort of creation. Peter Collinson, the botanist, to 
“whom the English gardens are indebted for many new 
and curious species which he acquired by means of an 
extensive correspondence in America,’ was highly gratified 
when Linnzus baptized a plant with his name; and with 
great spirit asserts his honourable claim: “Something, I 
think, was due to me for the great number of plants and 
seeds I have annually procured from abroad, and you have 
been so good as to pay it, by giving me a species of 
eternity, botanically speaking; that is, a name, as long as 
men and books endure.” Such is the true, animating 
language of these patriotic enthusiasts ! 
Some lines, at the close of Peacham’s “Emblems,” give 
an idea of an English fruit-garden in 1612. He mentions 
that cherries were not long known, and gives an origin to 
the name of filbert. 
“The Persian Peach, and fruitful Quince ; 
And there the forward Almond grew, 
With Cherries knowne no long time since ; 
The Winter Warden, orchard’s pride ; 
The Philibert that loves the vale, 
And red Queen apple, so envide 
Of school-boies, passing by the pale.” __ 
“Curiosities of Literature.” 
