DOGWOOD FAMILY 



not, it cannot be changed. Corniis 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- 

 guined 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. 



