October  17,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER . 
347 
BARR’S 
H1RDY  PERENNIALS 
For  Present  Planting. 
BARR'S  HARDY  CHINESE  DOUBLE  P/EONIES. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  choice  named  varieties  ...  10  6,  15/-,  and  21/- 
!n  *5  „  „  „  . .  21/-,  30/-,  and  42/- 
50  50  „  CTP  „  „  ..  45/-,  63/-,  and  84/- 
CHOICE  MIXTURE  OF  MANY  VARIETIES,  for  ex¬ 
tensive  planting,  per  100,  42/-  :  per  doz.,  5/6. 
DESCRIPTIVE  LIST  ON  APPLICATION. 
ARR’S  HARDY  SINGLE  CHINESE  P/EONIES. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  choice  named  varieties  ..  10  6,  15/-,  and  21/- 
125  in  25  „  „  „  ..  30/-  and  42/-. 
CHOICE  MIXTURE  OF  MANY  VARIETIES,  for  ex¬ 
tensive  planting,  per  100,  45/-;  per  doz.,  5/6. 
DESCRIPTIVE  LIST  OS  APPLICATION. 
BARR’S  hardv  tall  flag  IRISES. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  choice  named  varieties  . .  5/6.  7/6.  and  10/6 
25  in  25  ,,  „  ,,  . .  10/6  and  15/- 
50  in  50  ,,  „  ,,  i.  21/-  and  30/- 
CHOICE  MIXTURE  IN  MANY  VARIETIES,  for  ex-  j 
"tensive  planting,  per  100,  15/-;  per  doz.,  2,6. 
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MARSH  PLANTS,  BAMBOOS  AND  GRASSES,  WALL 
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BARR  &  SONS, 
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Nurseries— LONG  DITTON,  nr.  SURBITON,  SURREY. 
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ONCE  USED,  ALWAYS  USED. 
Mono  hundreds  of  Testimonials. 
Per  Bushel,  6/-,  packing  included. 
WM.  CDTBDSH  &  SON, 
Highgate  Nurseries  LONDON,  N., 
and  BARNET.  HERTS. 
RIVERS’ 
FRUIT  TREES, 
Roses,  Vines, 
FIGS,  ORANGES, 
AND 
Orchard-House  Trees. 
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ESTABLISHED  1832. 
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1 
AND  ALL  OTHER 
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Our  Descriptive  CATALOGLTE  of  the  above,  cmtaining 
Full  Cultural  Directions  and  particulars  as  to 
Free  Delivery,  wilt  be  sent  post  free  on  application 
to  our  Offices  at'  Overveen,  Haarlem,  Holland, 
or  to  our  General  Agents— 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3,  CROSS  LANE,  LONDON,  E.C. 
Dicksons  Growers  Chester 
BLUSH  MALMAISON. 
Layers  Ready  the  Early  Part  of  September. 
About  20,000  of  the  above  ;  also  a  quantity  of 
GERMANIA  (YELLOW)  CARNATION  LAYERS. 
{Dark  Pink  Malmaison  ..  ..  6/-  per  dozen. 
Blu.'h  ,,  ..  ..  5/- 
Germania  Carnation  (Yellow)  4/-  ,. 
Uriah  Pike  (Dark  Red)..  ..  4/-  ,, 
BELL  &  S  *  ELDON,  Castel  Nursery,  GUERNSEY 
FILBERT  BUSHES. 
Large  quantity,  5ft.  high,  very  busby,  only  four  years  old, 
fit  for  gapping,  coppices,  or  plantations. 
Nothing  in  fruit  gives  such  a  return  as  Filberts,  and  they 
grow  anywhere  and  always  crop. 
PRICE  PER  DOZEN  OR  1000  ON  APPLICATION. 
J.  P.  JONES,  CRADLEV,  MALVERN. 
THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  17,  1901. 
Old  Plant  Lore. 
DE  trees  of  the  forest  and  the 
T  flowers  of  the  field  have  ever 
furnished  the  superstitious 
with  ample  materials  for  the 
^  indulgence  of  their  credulity. 
That  people  should  seek  among 
Fy  plants  around  them  for  remedies 
against  the  ills  that  mortals  are  subject 
to  is  but  natural ;  the  folly  consisted 
in  the  manner  they  adopted  to  arrive  at  the 
supposed  curative  powers  of  the  various 
members  of  the  vegetable  kingdom.  In  olden 
times  astrology  had  much  to  do  with  the 
system  pursued,  inasmuch  as  the  professors 
asserted  that  all  plants  were  subject  to 
planetary  influence.  Indeed  they  went 
farther,  and  maintained  that  as  a  plant 
reigned  over  a  certain  part  of  the  human 
frame,  it  followed  that  the  herbs  under  its 
influence  supplied  the  proper  remedies  for 
administration  to  those  who  fell  ill.  The 
well-known  Nicholas  Culpepper  was  the  chiof 
professor  of  this  astro-medical  treatment  in 
England,  and  his  treatise  on  the  subject, 
entitled  “The  Herbal,”  is  even  now  still  to 
be  found  among  the  stock  in  trade  of  many 
a  country  bookseller.  Then  there  was  the 
curious  method  of  detecting  the  virtues  of 
plants  “  by  signature.”  The  doctrine  of  this 
system  was  one  of  analogy,  and  founded  on 
the  idea  that  “Nature  has  stamped  on  divers 
plants  legible  characters  to  discover  their 
uses.”  Following  this  theory,  it  was  main¬ 
tained  that  yellow  flowers  were  the  proper 
remedy  for  yellow  jaundice,  and  the  fancied 
resemblance  suggested  in  A^ervain  to  the 
human  eye  was  held  to  be  “  no  small  argu¬ 
ment  that  it  is  to  be  thereunto  appropriated.” 
Spotted  herbs  were  distilled  to  remove 
freckles,  on  the  ground  of  similis  similibus  ; 
and  moss,  “hanging  upon  a  tree  in  a  manner 
like  hair,”  was  thought  to  be  efficacious  in 
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