What Is In A Name

The tulxrose is no rose, but a species of the amaryllia family of tragrant fiowers. Dogwood is a small tree, and was not named for any of the canine family. It is common to all parts of the United States, and js cometimes called boxwood. lts botanical name Is cornus florida. Pompey's pillar has no historical connection with Pompey, the celebrated Koman. Spanish bajonet does not grow in Spain, but is a native of the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It ís n. beautiful flowering shrub, eight to ien feet high, and its botanical name is yuoea aloifolia. ('U'opatra's needle was not erected by the Egyptian queen of tliat name, nor in her honor. Whalebone is not bone at all, neither does it possess a single property of bone. It is the horny laminated plate in the mouth of the right whale. Sandal-wood is not used for making either sandals or slippers. The East India sandlewood is a tree 20 to 30 feet high, but most of the sandal wood known in tho Americal market is ia made from an exogenous aromatic shrub that grows in the Hawaiian and Fege islands. Ironwood has no more Jron in lts composition than other wood. It Is a tree about 30 feet In height, and Is sometimes callcd hornbeam. The wheel of fortune - A millionaire"s bioytle.