"Inquirer" says: "As I note your magazine endeavors to aid intelligence in every branch that horticulturists are expected to know something about, I would ask whether the plurals you often use for plants are strictly correct ? I notice you say cactuses, clematises, funguses and so forth. These are Latin names, and I think should be cacti, clematidae, fungi, as your contemporaries always employ them".

[No objection to have these queries. There is no reason why the lover of horticulture should not have as much general intelligence as the rest of mankind. In the cases referred to, we were not talking Latin, but English. We have taken these words into the English language - naturalized them - then they must follow English rules for making plurals as well as in other things. When writing Latin we shall use cacti, and not cactuses. - Ed. G. M].