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A particularly pleasing one recently arrived from Naples. It contained an appendix giving the English names for some common plants, and as most were new to me, I thought I might transcribe them.

I pick from its pages a few of the less technical facts which I always find so fascinating. It is odd for instance that Shakespeare should never have mentioned the snowdrop, he who lived to bejewel his poetry with the names of our simple flowers. https://t.co/r5uQbwzn7O

It tells the specialist all that he could want to know and tells the amateur a good deal more than he can be bothered to cope with. In this case I am thinking about the snowdrops and the snowflakes. https://t.co/YmrQ6BOrUx

24 Oct’54 Two shrubs with an amazingly long flowering period are Colutea arborescens and Colutea x media, the Bladder Sennas. https://t.co/qPCVwWw6DC

It is simply a distinction popularly made between Trumpet and Flat-face. This is putting it very crudely but for practical purposes it will serve. https://t.co/a3wKhbLEWZ https://t.co/jYmrGh8h4R

Or that it was ‘very good to be given in either phrenzy or lethargy;’ or that it cured you of the nightmare, and also of the melancholy. https://t.co/4BaIwsiSrA

—which I would much rather call by its other name of Venetian Sumach. Venetian suggests all the brocades and velvets of Titian abs Paolo Veronese and that is exactly what this lurid rhus calls to mind. https://t.co/3mvuOVpRKe

Murderous in two ways, because the root of Veratrum nigrum is poisonous, so be careful; a dark corner, a Mysteries of Udolfo corner; a corner that should be visited when the sky is lurid with an impending thunderstorm.

Leaving the tulips, we come to the narcissi; and here again, we find ourselves in confusion. I cannot here cope with the innumerable sorts https://t.co/a3wKhbLEWZ

Then I like the broken tulips, the Rembrandts, Bizzares, and the Bybloemens all in their different feathery stripes and flakes. https://t.co/wzTVlmEV2v https://t.co/I92DWkT1Em