Star.
London, England, 1830-07-21 00:00:00

QUERY ON VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS.

Sin—l should be obliged by any Correspondent informing me
how far the following account is correct, relating to the origin of
our most valuable vegetables and finest flowers. If it be true, our
country must in early times have been a most unfavoured spot, for
it would appear every thing, almost, which we now est has been
imported, from the pine-apple to the potatoe.
List of the productions of the earth now common in Great Bri-
tain, with the countries annexed from which they were derived.
Rye and Wheat Tottery and Siberia.
Barley and Oats.. Unknown—but can they be indi.
genous here when they require
cultivation ?
1 Rice .. Ethiopia.
Black wheat
Boer
1 Creases...

Cauliflowers
Asparagus... ... ....... .... Asia.
Fennel Canary Islands.
Amble and Parsley
Garlick . ..
Shallots
Kidney Beans .. East Indies.
Potatoes . Amerisa.
Tobacco North America. :
Cabbage Lettuce ....

YLOWILII6
Jasmine
Tuip
ftarduciy. Daffoldil
Lilly . Syria.
Carnation
Hose .
As this is from an old work it may be very erroneous, and, probe+
bly, some of your readeirs may favour me with a more correct list,
or Inform ins where to find one, as the subject is, I think, into?
rooting. I am yours,
Hendon, 12th July, 1830. CINCINNATUB.
Casette of Variety.

WALLOPRRS. •

Leiter 67allrrosing Paper.
Star There is no gainsaying facts, and there ought not to be
any partisanship in the prosecution of etymological inquiries. Ido
not claim even the praise of being ingenious) wrong wrong in the deriva-
tion assigned to " pot-walloping" in the tri production which
you were pleased to insert in your number of ' uroday ; for it was
but a repetition of what I had read in some newspaper during the
election of 1796. It was my intention to have added a few sentences,
which would, in the first plea, have saved me from an editorial
walloping, and in the next, on the supposition that "walloping"
was in the southern districts familiarly used for boiling, would ban
suggested to your correspondent a derivation which would not have
identified it, except in accidental coincidence of orthography, with
walloping in the sense of whopping or beating. But, being aware
of the value of space in your columns, I consulted brevity, and
" Barb ease labor*, obecurus fin."
Wallop, in the sense under consideration, I conceive to be a pro-
vincial diversity of the "boil up" of common parlance, and the
" well up" of poetic_phraseoloigy, and to be derived from the " auf-
wallen" of the high Dutch. Let me, however, through the medium
of your extensively circulated journal, caution the German student
of English, that though he may find in Leipsic dictionaries, of very
recent date„ his " aufwallen" translated by " wallop," he cannot
use the latter expression in the sense of " boil up," much less in
that of simply "to boil," without incurring the risk of being unin-
telligible to a great majority of Englishmen, for I apprehend that
even a Dover waiter would state at him if he called for a well wal-
loped egg, or fowl, or custard, or leg of mutton
NO WALLOPER.
We will not waste the time of our good-natured, ingenious, and
learned correspondent (for such he is) with any controversy : but he
will take our word for the fact, that whatever may be the opinion or
knowledge of so heterogeneous a person as a Dover waiter, the
country people throughout the south of England are familiar with
the word wallop in the sense of to boil. We speak from personal
knowledge.