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that are easy to layer, have the joints so short that 

 the shoots are crowded together into one close tuft. 



Sometimes when the botanical name is descriptive, 

 it is simply translated into the English equivalent, as 

 Heliantlms into Sunflower and Chrysocoma into Goldi- 

 locks. 



Some flowers have names referring to Bible stories 

 or incidents, such as Aaron's Rod, Jacob's Ladder, 

 Solomon's Seal, and Star of Bethlehem, all still in use, 

 though others that might be classed with them, such 

 as Grace-of-God {Hypericum), Gethsemane (Orchis), 

 and Hallelujah (Oxalis) have been lost. 



Though it is undoubtedly desirable to have a 

 popular name for every flower that has become 

 familiar, the numbers of fine plants that have been 

 introduced of late years have been many more than 

 have as yet found fitting names in our own tongue. 

 And in spite of vigorous effort on the part of those 

 who have earned the best right to give English names 

 to plants comparatively new to cultivation, but now 

 well established in English gardens, the fact remains 

 that the names which are used or proposed have to 

 follow that strange but undoubted law in the progress 

 of language, that all words belonging to it must grow 

 and cannot be made. Sometimes a new name will 

 be adopted at once ; the good white and yellow 

 varieties of Chrysanthemum frutescens that came to us 

 from France were very soon called " Paris Daisies " by 

 the market people, and Paris Daisies they remain. 



