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Show Derivation of Two Flowers' Name. A tuberose is not a rose, although the majority of English speaking people say it is, because they give the word only two syllables tube-rose. The tuber-ose Is the Polyanthes toberosa, a flowering, bulbous plant, belonging to the East Indies. It has knots, or tubers, connected into a bunch, as io the potato. Nor has our dandelion any connection with a fop or a lion. To call a dandelion akin in any way to the fop is as pertinent as the translation certain English gardeners garden-ers give to the well known rose the rose des quatre suisone the rose of the four Reasons, which they call the "Hose of the Quarter Sessions," as though it bad some connection with the bench and tho bar and the administration of justice. The word dandelion is from the French dent de lion, the lion:s tooth, and in Greek the flower is the leontoden, also lion's tooth, from the Bhape of its petals, which are fancied to be like the teeth of lionB. Harper's |