FLOWER NAMES.
If wo look closely at flower names, the Latin terms for which some amateur gardeners find so difficult to remember, we see there is a close connection between the name and some attribute or characteristic of the plant. For instance, the Christmas rose, whose beautiful white blossoms show up so splendidly in the gardens near Christmas, is a poisonous plant, and this is shown by its name, helleborus, which is derived from . two words meaning "to kill" and "food," Antirrhinum, the. technical term"' for snap-dragon, ,has the same meaning as the more expressive name, which country children use for the flower —rabbit's-nose—for "anti" means like, .and "rliin" a snout or nose. Anemone, country people rightly call the wind flower, for "anemos" means wind. The old belief that "heliotrope turned towards the "sun is shown : ih its derivation: "lielios," the sun, and. V'trope," turning. Scilla, a flower with a poisonous bulb, gets its name from a word meaning to tear or hurt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 10
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