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Show HOW THEY GOT THEIR NAMES Camellas Were Named In Honor of Mislonary Kamel, Who Brought Beautiful Flower to Country. Fuchsias were so called because they were discovered by Leonard Fuchs. Dahlias were named for Andre Dahl, who brought them from Peru. The Camellia was named from a missionary named Kamol, who brought some magnificent specimens of the flower to France from Japan. He called it the rose of Japan, but his friends changed it in his honor.' Magnolias were so called because Prof. Magnol de Montpellier first brought this beautiful tree to Franco from America and Asia. Anemones mean trembling with the wind hence their name. Lavender received its name because be-cause the Romans put the delicate flowers into the water where thuy washed, to perfume their hands, lavare being the Latin word, to wash. |