Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Flower Names. [ARTICLE]

Flower Names.

The spelling of the popular names.of our wild flowers sometimes obscures their etymology. Thus “foxglove" ,a leaTly a mistake for “Folks”—the fairy “folks-glove”—and has no connection with the fox, far less with “fuchs” or “fuCbias.” A woman’s definition of a good doctor Is one who has a tender voice and sympathetic eyes.