Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-03-01
HORTICULTURAL.

HORTICULTURAL.
The Horticuhurist for February, edited
by A. J. Downing, has been received in
Boston. This number contains as usual,
q great deal that is interesting to cutiva.
tors and lovers of the beautiful in rural
art. The opening article is humorous
account Of ga Mass Meeting Of all the
fruits of America, assembled TO discuss
the propriety Of changing their names. -
We make from it the following extract -
Here a stranger to US, the Bezi des Ve-
teranS, rose and said :-Sare, have de
honor 10 Just arrive in dis country. ! am
very much chagrinee at dis proposition 10
take away my name. have run away
from de resolutions, what take away my
property, and here | hope to find la Hberte
Ia pair and only find les colours
robbers-vat wish TO take away my name.
Yes-sare and what they will call me
den wild old mans or old sojair q
Bah! Me no like TO be SO, Moi, who belong
to de grand bataillon--lc garde Napoleon !
Here pleasant and amiable lady rose,
evidently little embarrassed. 1t was
Louise Bonne de JERSEY. She said she
loved America. True, she had found the
climate not to agree with her AT first. and
her children seemed 10 pine away but
since she had taken that hardy creature,
the Ounce, for partner, they had done
wonderfully well. For her own part, she
had no objection whatever to being called
Good Louise, or even Dear Louise if
her American friends and cousins liked it
better. All she asked was to be allowed
to live in the closest intimacy with the
Ounce, and not TO have any cutting re.
marks made at her roots. She could not
bear that.
A very superb and stately lady next
rose, giving a shake to her broad skirts Of
yellow satin. and looking about her with
the air of a Duchess. In fact, it was the
DucheSse D'Angou1eme; and though she
was little high shouldered, and her feat
urcs somewhat irregular, she had still a
very noble air. She remarked, in a simple
and digniied voice, that she had been
many years in this country, and had be.
come very partial to the people and
institutions. Naturally, she had strong
attachments 10 old names and associations.
especially where, as in her ease, they
were names that were names. But, she
added, it was impossible 10 live in America
without mixing with the people; and it
was impossible TO mix with the people, if
ones very name could not be understood
1t was very distressing to her feelings to
find, as she did, that French was no,
taught in the common schools and she
hoped if an agricultural college was estab
lished, the scholars would be taught that
language which was synonymous with
everything elegant and refined. She
trusted, in conclusion, that though names
should be angllcised, the dignity would be
preserved. A Duchess, in name at least
she must always be; but if republicans
preferred to call her simply the Duchess
OF Angouleme, she saw nothing amiss in it
Especially,-she remarked, with Sigh
toss of the head d,--espeoially, since she had
heard an Ignorant man, at the country-sea
where she resided, call her repeatedly
Dutchy- Dan goes-lame ) and another
who visits him, speak Of her, as Dutch
Dangle-um,' forgetting that she abhorrec
Holland.
She was followed by the Red Streak Ap
pie, from New Jersey, very blunt, stur
dy fellow, who spoke his mind plainly
lie said he liked the good sense of the la
dy who lad Just spoken; she was a wo
man he should have no objection to call Q
Duchess himself. About this matter he
had but few words to say. Some folks
were all talk and no cider; that, thank God
was not his fashion. What he had TO sa,
he said and that was, that he was sick O
this tomfoolery about foreign names. A
name either meant something, or it did net
Anybody who looked at him could see tina
he was Red-Streak, and that was all tha
his father expected when he named him
Anybody could believe that the last speak
er was Duchess. But what, he shoulc
ike to know, did the man mean who nam
ed Peach Sanguinole chair adherent ?
lie should like to meet that chap. 1t woult
be a regular raw-head and bloody. bone.
piece of business for him. And Fondan
du Bo'S; he supposed that was the fonc
aunt of some b'hoys,-it might be the 'olc
boy for all he knew. And 'Buerre Grisd
Hiper noureau.' Could any thing be more
ridiculous He should like to know how
those clever people, the pomologsts, would
translate that They told him, new grey
winter butter [Loughter,l and what sort
OF winter butter, pray, was that ? 'Reint
de Pays Bas;' what this meant he not ex
actly know, something, he supposed, abou
rainy weather pays bad, which would
not go down, he could tell the gentleman
in our dry climate. There was no end ia
this stuff, he said. He seconded the Pip.
pin. Clear it all away boil it down to {
little pure, plain English essence, if ther,
was any substance in it; if not throw tht
lingo to the dogs. He hoTed the Pears
would excuse him. He meant no ofienc,
to them, personally. But he didn't lik,
their names, and he told them so to thei
faces.
The Minister Apple here observed tha
he had some more scruples about changn.
the names of all the fruits. 1t might hav,
bad effect on the hearts and minds of tn,
community He begged leave to presen
, to the Speakers consideration such name
for example, as the An mon Dieu.' and th