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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
May 22; 
and to the right of the Throne was occupied by the orchestra. 
The exhibitors and the persons invited were distributed 
throughout the whole extent of the building. From 10 till 12 
o’clock the space reserved on the ground floor in front of the 
Throne was gradually tilled, and the eye soon became dazzled 
with the brilliancy of the costumes, French and foreign, covered 
Avith embroidery and insignia of orders belonging to every 
Government in Europe. Among the earlier arrivals were the 
ambassadors of Austria, Prussia, Spain, and England. The 
crimson benches to the left were occupied by the Ministers, j 
the President of the Legislative Corps, and their families; 
and on the other side the members of the Imperial family. ' 
At tAvelve o’clock a detachment of the Cent Gardes, in full 
uniform, and wearing their glittering cuirasses, entered the i 
building, and took their place in a line to the right of the 
Throne; they were soon followed by Prince Napoleon, in j 
the uniform of a general of division, accompanying Queen j 
Maria Christina. The Emperor’s arrival had been an- | 
nounced for one o’clock precisely, and at a little after half- j 
past twelve a salute Avas fired from the Invalides, Avhich was 
supposed to mark the moment of his leaving the Palace of , 
the Tuileries. Contrary to his usual habit of exact punctu¬ 
ality, it Avas fully tw’enty minutes past one when he appeared 
Avitli the Empress. Prince Napoleon proceeded to the | 
entrance of the building to receive their Majesties, who Avere 
accompanied by Prince Jerome and the Princess Mathilde, 
his daughter. On entering the building, the assemblage 
rose and saluted their Majesties with the cry of “ Vive 
VEmpercur! ” The Emperor and Empress ascended the 
steps leading to the Throne, and remained standing Avhile 
Prince Napoleon read the address. To the right of the 
Emperor were the Princess Mathilde and her father, Prince 
Jerome. To the left of the Empress stood the Duchesses 
of Esling and Montebello, and the Baroness de Pierres, and 
behind the Throne the Dukes of Bassano, Cambaferes, 
Marshals Yaillant, Magnan, &c. After a short pause, Prince j 
Napoleon advanced to the foot of the platform on Avhich the 
Emperorsrnd Empress were standing, and read from apaper 
the address, Avhich Avas of some length, and which gave an 
account of the origin of the building, and intention of the 
founders. 
The Emperor replied asfolloAvs :— 
“ My dear Cousin—In placing you at the head of a com- | 
mission that had so many difficulties to overcome, I Avished 
to give you a particular proof of my confidence. I am happy 
to find that you haA r e so fully justified it. I beg of you to i 
thank the commission in my name for the enlightened care 
and indefatigable zeal it has displayed. 
“ I open Avith happiness this Temple of Peace, which in¬ 
vites all nations to concord.” 
Their Majesties afterwards, folloAved by Prince Napoleon j 
and the Princess Mathilde, placed themselves at the head j 
of the procession, and Avalked through the building, amidst 
the warmest demonstrations of respect from the assembled 
thousands. The edifice is described as being very hand¬ 
some, but not equal to that iD Hyde-park in 1851. The 
various articles laid out for inspection are said to be many j 
and beautiful; but there is much vacant room yet to be j 
filled up before the Exhibition can be pronounced complete, i 
Indeed, it appears that on Monday morning no less than 
20,000 cases of goods remained unopened; which, when > 
duly distributed through the different courts, must of course 
add considerably to the magnificence of the scene.— Morn- \ 
ing Chronicle. 
ENGLISH SURNAMES DERIVED FROM 
THOSE OF PLANTS. 
“ The vegetable kingdom presents, as a representative 
peer, Archibald John Primrose , Earl of Rosebery; and as 
commoners, Lilly, the English grammarian, and Roses in 
abundance. In every country of Europe the Rose has given 
its name, not merely to pretty Avomen, such as fair Rosamond, 
Rose BradAvamine, and many a French Rosine , and German 
Rdschen, but to numerous families. Sir George Rose in 
London, and Professor Rose in Berlin, bear a surname now 
common in England and Germany; and which equally 
belongs to France and Italy, to the Spanish and Scandi¬ 
navian peninsulas, to Wallachia and Poland, and probably 
at the present day to Russia. In the case of the Roses of 
Poland, the name must have been taken from the roses 
which they bore in their coat of arms long before they had 
the name. The Griffons, Oxenstierns , and other Polish 
families must also have taken their names from the arms 
Avhich they severally bore long before hereditary surnames 
Avere knoAvn in their country. Sometimes this surname, Rose, 
may have originated in a Avoman’s name; and in such cases 
comes indirectly only from the floAver. Our old forest trees 
have given their names to families of Ash , Oak, Elm, Beech, 
Birch, Alder, Elder, Aspen, Poplar, Maple, Hazel. The Willow 
appears in Willoughby ; the iime-tree in Lind, Bindley, and 
Lindsey ; the sloe in Slow, Slowburn, and Slowcombe : Hips 
and Haws, in Hipsley, Hippesley, Hawdon and Hawley : the 
Thorn in many compounds : and the Pine in one solitary 
name, although the Fir and Larch do not appear. It is 
remarkable, as Dr. Leo has observed, that in the names of 
places found in the Anglo-Saxon charters, no mention 
should occur of a single species of Pinus or Abies. The 
Germans have both Fichte and von der Tunn, as sur¬ 
names. Some herbs and grasses which are found in 
surnames have been already alluded to. Caerse, cress, 
(nasturtium) is apparent in Cressey, Cresacre, Crcslow, 
Cressingham, Cresswell, and Creswick. From fruit, and fruit 
trees, Ave have the family names of Apple and Pear, Cherry, 
and Peach, Crab and Crabtree, Plum and Plmntree ; but 
Apricot and Nectarine, Strawberry and Raspberry, still belong 
to Pomona only. 
“ Cereals have long flourished in Wheat, Wheaton, and 
Whately ; in Bere, the old name of Sir John Barleycorn’s 
family; in some derivatives from this old name already 
mentioned, in speaking of the Bear, in Gales, and in Riley 
and Rycroft. Though our Beans cannot be compared with 
the great Fabian house, or Avith the Piso, the Cicero, or the 
Lentulns of Rome, yet Bean and Pease, and Peascod, have at 
least great antiquity in Europe, and have thus been enabled 
as surnames to found families. The great tribe of the 
Potato having immigrated into the Old World since sur¬ 
names became hereditary, have been obliged to keep their 
name to themselves ; and, unlike Pepper, Peppercorn, and 
other foreigners, have not succeeded in bestoAving their 
name upon a single English family. In this they resemble 
the Physician and the Surgeon; who, for centuries iioav 
past, have been unable to take their place in the family 
nomenclature of England, by the side of those elder branches 
of the descendants of Aesculapius, the Leach, and the 
Pothccary.”—Edinburgh Review. 
“ DON’T KNOW HOW TO SHANK.” 
The article headed as above, which appeared in the 
January number of this periodical, page 263, seems to 
haA r e givon grievous offence to some. Being the writer, 
I feel myself called upon to justify the tenor as Avell as the 
character of the language used in its composition. My 
remarks were not addressed to any individual, but I attacked 
the principle of admitting such misleading and incorrect 
language in the recommendation of horticultural and flori- 
cultural productions to the attention of “kindly, good- 
natured, and friendly gardeners,” amateurs as Avell as pro¬ 
fessional ; and it Avas the knoAvledge of the unsuspecting 
confidence of many true lovers of plants, that made me, 
“probably, a little over earnest,” in deprecating the prin¬ 
ciple involved in the above sentence, which I used as my 
motto. If that sentence had only been once used, it might 
have passed unnoticed, but as “bad examples are more 
readily folloAved than good ones,” I saAV it Avas repeated, and 
Avould, doubtless, have been so again and again, to the dis¬ 
advantage of the uninitiated, in what would, in the course 
of time, have become “garden slang.” 
With little regard to correctness, my corrector has trans¬ 
cribed the word “ humbug," AA'hicli was meant to convey 
deceit into “ humbugs,” which applies to persons, and in 
his third phrase has used a sentence ending with the Avord 
club. This, I consider unfair, as it would lead your readers 
to suppose that I assailed a particular class of individuals. 
Nothing can be more unjust, or further from my purpose. 
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