DOGWOOD FAMILY 



not, it cannot be changed. Cornus alba is the correct 

 name ; the bush having been named with reference to 

 its fruit rather than its stems. 



Dealers of acknowledged standing are extensively 

 advertising the Red-stemmed Dogwood as Cornus san- 

 guinea and the public is just as extensively buying it 

 under the same name. " A name is a trifle and besides 

 this one is fitting." No doubt " a rose by any other 

 name would smell as sweet," but after all it is not quite 

 pleasant that so gross an error should be so wide- 

 spread ; or that it should be so strongly entrenched 

 among those who ought to know better. 



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