WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
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not eatable until quite ripe, and even then they are not to 
everybody’s taste, on account of their austerity. In truth, 
we have it on the testimony of Pliny that the old Latin 
name unedo, now enshrined in the specific scientific name, was 
given to it because to eat one of these tree strawberries 
was a sufficiently extensive acquaintance for most persons. 
It is perhaps unnecessary to add that, in spite of the 
name, there is no relationship existing between this tree and 
the Strawberry ; nor is there more than a faint superficial 
resemblance between the fruits of the two plants. The 
Strawberry belongs to the great Rose family, whilst the nearest 
British connections of the Arbutus are the Bilberries and 
Heaths. 
Dogwood {Cornus sanguined). 
Among the constituents of the broad hedgerow, and the 
copse that borders many a country road, the Dogwood or Cornel 
is apt to be overlooked as Privet, to which its similar, opposite 
leaves and clusters of small white flowers bear a superficial 
resemblance. It has a great variety of local names, though 
it must be admitted that many of these show close connections 
one with another. This, however, makes them not less interest- 
ing, but indicates how ancient and general is the underlying 
idea which has given rise to them. Dogwood had originally no 
connection with dogs, but was the wood of which dags, goads, 
and skewerc were made, because, as the Latin Corniis signifies, 
it was of horny hardness and toughness. When the etymology 
got changed by the substitution of “ o ” for “ a ” in dag, it was 
also called Dog-tree, Dog-berry, Dog-timber, and Houndberiy- 
tree, and to explain the name it was said that the bark made an 
excellent wash for mangy dogs. Gatter, Gatten, Gaiter, Gaitre- 
berry, are all from the Anglo-Saxon Gad-ireow, or goad-tree ; 
