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Then I landed at Basrah and was carried off by the Consul and plunged for twenty-four hours into his family life. Kind people. But one isn’t a pilgrim for nothing, and the next day I had to leave this kind new home with its dogs and all, and start off again across Iraq . . .

Since the Moss is only a form of the Cabbage it shares the deep velvety scent of its relation, with the added attraction of its own furry calices and shoots. https://t.co/BIsITa8cWS

Reticulata—the netted iris. Not the flower, but the bulb wears a little fibrous coat like a miniature fishing net. https://t.co/sPtdGoG7NC https://t.co/g6WBXBrZ92 https://t.co/uNzDt8CX3s

The second grievance concerns changes of botanical name. I admit that it is very puzzling to be brought up in our childhood to call lilac Lilac and syringa Syringa; and suddenly to be told in our middle-age that we must call lilac Syringa and syringa Philadelphus.

It would be a great convenience; we should all rush to look up strobiliformis or quintuplinervius, only to discover that it meant shaped like a fir-cone, and five-veined in the description of a leaf. https://t.co/O3eVRPKUlW

Rosa primula, yellow, the Incense rose; https://t.co/uDF46R03Z2 https://t.co/Tly7WdVC9D

Perhaps Gerard was quoting Epictetus who writing in the 1st century remarks that the more firmly deluded is a madman the more hellebore he needs. https://t.co/5Kj2YYbFXj

The Christmas rose, although not a native of Britain, has been for centuries in our gardens. Spenser refers to it in the Faerie Queen https://t.co/EvrgTzoRiE

It can avert lightening and thunderbolts, witchcraft and sorcery; it can extinguish fire; it can discover gold buried in the earth; It can cure ulcers and epilepsy; it can stimulate fertility in women and cattle. https://t.co/8spJmW1FyB

In it occurred a rather sour remark to the effect that ‘the far greater part of persons who possess gardens really know very little about the matter and possess no principles relating to the art.’ https://t.co/USaj5uggcs https://t.co/4F2GGwJgzA