Re: OT: Bois d'Arc

In a message dated 6/6/00 6:12:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:

<<  The mock orange here is a shrub with dogwood-like blossoms, often called 
English dogwood, but I think that is incorrect, too.>>

Yass. We call those mock oranges, too. They are Philadelphus species. Very 
nice, very fragrant when you get a good one. They have mock 'orange flowers'. 
Osage is mock 'orange fruit'. 

I never heard English dogwood. Here in the Commonwealth we take our dogwood 
very seriously, and it is the native state flower. Cornus species. The garden 
club women mounted a huge campaign in the 'twenties to plant it all along the 
roads. They planted or relocated thousands and it is a sight to see in the 
spring to this day. We do have English boxwoods, though, Buxus species,  
which I guess brings us full circle here and offers yet another good example 
of why one needs a few Latin names to just get by. 

Now, that stuff that falls out of horses we just call .....  well, never 
mind. 

Anner, in Virginia 
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