it not tax a man's invention,--no one to be named after a man, and
all in the lingua vernacula?[Footnote: Lingua vernac'ula, common
speech.] Who shall stand god-father at the christening of the wild
apples? It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were
used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should have to call in
the sunrise and the sunset, the rainbow and the autumn woods and the
wild flowers, and the woodpecker and the purple finch, and the
squirrel and the jay and the butterfly, the November traveller and
the truant boy, to our aid.

In 1836 there were in the garden of the London Horticultural Society
more than fourteen hundred distinct sorts. But here are species
which they have not in their catalogue, not to mention the varieties
which our Crab might yield to cultivation. Let us enumerate a few of
these. I find myself compelled, after all, to give the Latin names
of some for the benefit of those who live where English is not
spoken,--for they are likely to have a world-wide reputation.

There is, first of all, the Wood-Apple (Malus sylvatica); the Blue-
Jay Apple; the Apple which grows in Dells in the Woods
(sylvestrivallis), also in Hollows in Pastures (campestrivallis);
the Apple that grows in an old Cellar-Hole (Malus cellaris); the
Meadow-Apple; the Partridge-Apple; the Truant's Apple (Cessatoris),
which no boy will ever go by without knocking off some, however late
it may be; the Saunterer's Apple,--you must lose yourself before you
can find the way to that; the Beauty of the Air (Decks Aeris);
December-Eating; the Frozen-Thawed (gelato-soluta), good only in
that state; the Concord Apple, possibly the same with the Musketa-
quidensis; the Assabet Apple; the Brindled Apple; Wine of New
England; the Chickaree Apple; the Green Apple (Malus viridis);--this