iis.viiLAuo.16,1913.] NOTES AND QUEEIES.
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Botany (11 S. vi. 368, 416, 476; vii. 72, 231, 516).—I am surprised at the lack of English replies to this query as to "the loves of the plants." Doubtless Dr. Darwin's poem thus named, and Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll—say under 'Hedera'—would give information. From my casual notes come the following:—
1. "The hazel branch with encircling honeysuckle . . . . intertwined thrive, but as soon as they are separated both perish." ('Of Six Mediæval Women,' on 'The Honeysuckle' of Marie de France, where Tristran carries a message to Isolde to above effect.)
2. Barley is put into the hole in planting olive trees in Syracuse. (Query in Nature, 26 Oct., 1911, p. 551.)
3. A. C. Parker. 'Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants,' says on p. 27:—
" Among the Senecas, in planting corn the seeds of the squash and bean were sown in every seventh hill because it was thought that the spirits of these three plants were inseparable." [Explained on pp. 36-7 :] " In the cosmologic myth of the Senecas, corn is said to have sprung from the breasts of the Earth-Mother who died ....
An old Seneca chief in 1876 said that the
beans, squashes. .. .sprang also from the grave. Some of the writer's informants declare that the squash grew from the grave earth directly over the Earth-Mother's navel, the beans from her feet."
Relying on my own memory, in many an American cornfield maize, squashes, and beans are still planted in the same hill.
ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass.
COBBETT BIBLIOGRAPHY (11 S. vi. 1, 22, 62, 84, 122, 142, 183, 217, 398 ; viii. 36). It seems from internal evidence that the pamphlet " Life of William Cobbett, author of the ' Political Register,' Written by Him- self," and published by Hone, is genuine. The style is surely pure Cobbett, and from the text it may be gathered that it Was written when he was in America, for it is less of a biography than a spirited defence against certain charges that had been levelled at him, as being a pamphleteer in the pay of the British Government. It is probable that, Cobbett being a notable figure, or a notorious, according to point of view, William Hone, having secured a copy of the American pamphlet, issued it as a catchpenny " Life " in 1816. That it succeeded in its penny-catching may be assumed from the fact of its running into several editions ; the copy which I possess (bought many years ago for one penny) is headed, "Third Edition, containing as much
as a Half -Crown Pamphlet," and is dated
1816. It is difficult to believe that this
sixteen-page pamphlet, dealing discursively
with Cobbett's liie only to about 1798, can
be the " copious " autobiography referred
to by John Britton. WALTER JERROLD.
Hampton-on-Thames.
LOUGH FAMILY (11 S. vii. 428). This name occurs in Hist. Com. Sixth Report, temp. Hen. III., Edw. II., under Walling- ford, Berks : Luches, Louches, de Luches, de Luchiis.
Also in Phillimore's ' Marriage Registers, Berkshire.' vol. i. : Lowche (1544), Louche (1600), and perhaps later.
R. J. FYNMORE.
" RUMMAGE " (11 S. vii. 484 ; viii. 56). Your correspondent should consult the
- Oxford English Dictionary ' on this Word.
" Gyndage " (frequently spelt " gwin- dagium ") is probably the fee for hauling the casks on board with the tackle that would need to be rigged for the purpose.
Q. V.
KONKANI MS. (11 S. viii. 90). A Konkani MS. written at Rachol in 1616, probably by an Englishman (Inglez), is certainly of some philological interest, and worth preserving in a public library. Another Padre Thomas Estavao published, at Nova Goa in 1857, a ' Grammatica da Lingua Concani,' and Dalgado has published a ' Port uguez- Kon- kani Diccionar.' Books in Konkani, princi- pally of a devotional character, can be had from Messrs. L. M. Furtado & Co., Kal- badevie Road, Bombay. Shakespeare is represented by the story of ' Razput Ham- let ' (Mumbai, 1908), the first of a projected series of " Shakspearachea Khellanchi Mall," but I was told that no more were to be published. L. L. K.
OFFICERS IN UNIFORM (11 S. viii. 89). I can remember that in 1846-7 officers in this island always wore the blue frock coat (uniform) when off duty. I do not remember that they wore their swords. They wore them early in the twenties, for I have heard my mother say that when an officer joined a party for a walk in the country he used to hide his sword in a hedge, picking it up on his way back. I have heard that it was owing to the Duke of Wellington that officers discontinued wearing their uniform, for he had great difficulty in getting the proper number of men for the standing army, and he thought that officers being so much in evidence
