We have from time to time entered our protest against the ridiculous habit of giving latin names to garden varieties. But our English friends would not fall in line. They even refused to receive ours with good English names, but baptized them over again. We gave them Tom Thumb, and George Peabody Arbor Vitaes, but they couldn't think of admitting them into their collections with these substantial cognomens; they are something with wonderfully long Latin names over there. But they are now getting about sick themselves. The Gardeners' Chronicle says of a fern recently on exhibition before the Royal Horticultural Society :

"A pretty garden variety of Pteris cretica was shown at the last meeting with so formidable an array of Latin adjectives attached to it as would necessitate at least two ordinary labels for its display. The committee decided, wisely as we think, simply to call it Pteris cretica ' H. B. May,' and awarded it a certificate under that name. If Mr. May prefers his Latin vocabulary there is, of course, nothing to prevent him from calling his plant what he pleases, but we venture to think the general convenience will be consulted if the variety be henceforth known under the name by which it was certificated, or as ' May's variety.' In any case it is a pretty plant, well suited for decorative purposes, and is described in another column".