We do not know any pretty English name for Edelweiss. The German name is
composed of two words--_edel_, signifying _noble_, and _weiss_, _white_.
If you are studying botany, perhaps you can determine to what family the
flower belongs--that is, if you have any carefully pressed specimens.
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Will you please tell me why the Bank of England is called "the Old
Lady in Threadneedle Street," and who first called it so? I would
like to know, too, when the bank was founded, and when the building
it now occupies was erected.