Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1903 — The Rhodum Sidus. [ARTICLE]

The Rhodum Sidus.

An amusing story told by Hood describes how a country nurseryman made a large sum out of sales of fi simple little flower which he sold un der the name of the Rhodum sidus. This charming name proved quite an attraction to the ladies, and the flower became the rage of the season. - It was one of those freaks of fashion for which there is no accounting. At length a botanist who found that the plant was not an uncommon weed requested to know where the nurseryman got the name from. He elicited the following reply: ‘‘l found this flower in the road beside us, so christened it the Rhodum aidus.”