THE NAMES OF FLOWERS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 2 April 1908, Page 37

THE NAMES OF FLOWERS

It is interesting to know how certain flowers received their names. Many were named after^ people. For instance, the fuchsias were so called becatfse they were discovered by Leonard Fuchs. Dahlias were named alter Andre Dahl, who first brought them from. Peru. The camellia received its name from- a missionary named Kamel, who • carried specimens of these flowers from Japan to France. ' The magnolia was -named in honor" of Magnol _de Montpelier. Other flowers' names are descriptive: Lady's slipper resembles a .tiny slipper.. The blossorrs of lady's tresses are twisted like a braid of hair. The flowers of the foxglove are like the fingers of a glove. The name foxglove is said -to be a corruption of folks' glove or fairy's glove. means star, and received its name from the starKke rays of this flower. Daisy is really day's eye. Dandelion means lion's tooth. • ~", - Anemone means wind flower. The anemone is so delicately poised that it trembles in the, slightest breeze. Morning glories bloom only im the morning, and four o'clodcs . not until that hour in the afternoon.-