Vita Sackville-Westさんのイラストまとめ

—trying to make her way home from the little colony at the foot of Table Mountain. The canny Yorkshiremen picked them up, since when Vallota [Cyrtanthus elatus] has always been familiarly known as the Scarborough Lily.
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[Some Flowers'37] The original zinnia, Zinnia elegans, was introduced into European countries in 1796, and since then has been ‘improved’ into the garden varieties we now know and grow.
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Why the Christmas rose, which is white, should be called black in Latin I could not imagine until I discovered that the adjective referred to the root;
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It is a charming word; I have always used it and shall continue to use it, whatever the great OED may say; and shall now take my neighbour’s tussie-mussie as a theme to show what ingenuity, taste and knowledge can produce from a small garden even in Feb https://t.co/bGtdptbIsx

We should all rush to look up strobiliformis or quintuplinervius, only to discover that it meant shaped like a fir-cone, and five-veined in the description of a leaf.
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There appear to be two principal grievances. I hope I have disposed of the first, but I do suggest that some society such as the RHS might supply an inexpensive alphabetical glossary for easy reference.
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If I see that a plant is described as azureus I know instantly that it is blue; so does my opposite number in Brazil, France or Pakistan. If it is described as azureus vernus, I know that it is not only blue, but that it flowers in the spring. https://t.co/jHCJWSEwS6

Instead of getting cross about it, we should do better to take an intelligent interest in discovering what lies behind these apparently appalling names. https://t.co/DSP4AmQPDT

Well, whenever there is an English name I do give it; I prefer it myself. I would much rather call a thing Bouncing Bet than Sapponaria officinalis; but when there is no name in the vernacular, our common speech, what am I to do? https://t.co/k5f2msudSa

Huguenot refugees popularized them in England, and by the latter part of the 17th century many new varieties had been raised to which some charming and fanciful names were given such as the Fair Virgin, the Alderman, the Matron, Prince Silverwings.