Papers Past | Newspapers | Nelson Evening Mail | 24 October 1942

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The word “fuchsia” used to be a favourite “crux” at the old-fashioned spelling-bees. The plant is so called from the German botanist Leonard Fuchs, iust as the dahlia was named from Dahl, the Swedish botanist. The popular pronunciation is. in both cases, purely conventional. ,

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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 October 1942, Page 3

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Untitled Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 October 1942, Page 3

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