Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . mous to lov \evn6v. But this leaves us asmuch in the dark as before; for what, after all, ismeant by a white violet ? Now in Dioscorides, XevKoiov, or lov Xwkov, maybe viewed as a generic name for various speci
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . mous to lov \evn6v. But this leaves us asmuch in the dark as before; for what, after all, ismeant by a white violet ? Now in Dioscorides, XevKoiov, or lov Xwkov, maybe viewed as a generic name for various speciesof cheiranthus or wall-flower, if we admit Sib-thorps authority, which is confirmed by the plateof XevKoYov in the V. MS.; and of this, two species,C. cheiri and C. incanus, are cultivated in gardensin Greece at the present day. In the V. MS. is a drawing of Xevnoiov Qakao-o-iovV,which bears a near resemblance to cheiranthuscuspidatus (Fl. Gr. t. 639); and hesperis matrona-lis, a cruciform plant, not very unlike a wall-flower, is called dames violet at the present day. Thus the entire catalogue of ornamental flowersgiven in Columella Avould amount only to abouteleven; and if we take into account such as arementioned by Virgil, it Avill be found, that afterdeducting such ornamental trees as, laurus, thebay laurel; myrtus, the myrtle; myrica, proba-p See plate annexed. Plate, IT. jyuftvu cu V}UXAA>\yvxX^ tfu, fy ] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 241 bly the tamarisk; and viburnum, the wayfaring-tree, or more probably the clematis, only the fol-lowing additions will be made. First, then, appears the acanthus, a term ap-plied to any description of flower that Avas asso-ciated with thorns, the word being derived fromaial) a point, and avOo? a flower. In Dioscorides1 accordingly several kinds ofaKavQa are enumerated; namely, kpiraKavQ^ whichSibthorp identifies with the acanthus spinosusof L.; apafiiKt}, probably onopordon arabicum;XevKrj, a kind of thistle, probably, as Sibthorpth
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