WHAT IS IT?

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3641, 14 March 1883, Page 3

WHAT IS IT?

[To the Editor or Daily Teleghapit.] Sik, —"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," and why should my happiness be disturbed by a few gardeners trying to show the world how much cleverer they are than the ordinary run of mankind. Your contemporary very foolishly inserted a report on the lute horticultural show, and in order to be quite correct got a special man for the job. The consequence was there were heaps of mistakes and fittonias got mixed up with graciliuins and gym-some-thing or other with grneillimums. F.R.H.S. then~very properly pivp Uu- J Lerald a drubbing, accused him of ignorance, and wound up liy saying , there was no such plant as iittonja rubronerva (spelt by Herald rubonervia), and Mr Tiff en's exhibit wasn't what it was, but something else. Then Mr Tift'cn rushed into print and jumped on F.R.H.S., and Mr Tiffen would have been quite right, but the printer made him all wrong. When long words arc about Mr Cok-nso is not far oft, and he enters the field, and, apparently, accepting all the errors as perfectly correct, turns vubronerva into rubrmervis. So to make matters bettor the Herald explains that it is not rubrouerva, or rubonervn, or ruhonervia, but rubroneura. Nov.- wo are all up a tree : and when the doctors have agreed as to what the tiring is to be called, perhaps they will be good enough to say j what the thing is.—l am, &c, IcxoiLvxr*.

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