AMARYLLIS FAMILY 



us Tuberose seems an appropriate name for a blossom tubular 

 in form, which gives forth an odor that may perhaps be considered 

 rose-like. But neither the tube nor the odor really had anything 

 to do with the selection of a name. The word originally was an 

 adjective: tu-ber-ose, meaning tuber-like in reference to the 

 thickened rootstock. The plant was the Tuberose PoHanthes, 

 but in some way Polianihes was dropped and tu-ber-ose became 

 Tuberose, and Tuberose it will probably remain. By any other 

 name it doubtless would smell as sweet. 



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