4 MAY 1929, Page 44

General Knowledge Questions

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Lady Laura Ridding Wouston, Sutton-Scotney, Hants. for the following :—

Questions on Trees in Legend and Literature

I. By what name is the anchar tree commonly known and with what fabulous powers is it credited T 2. How did evidence concerning a mastick and a holmtres save a woman's life ?

3. In what wood was the sap of the thorn trees made of blood 4. To what tree does the poet vow :— " And I will work in prose and rhyme, And praise thee more in both Than bard has honoured beech or lime " ?

5. Name the wood of which the earliest recorded ship was built.

6. What tree formed the grave of a murdered sage ?

7. Give the name of the sacred ash, beneath whose shade the gods of Asgard met in council.

8. What tree bears nothing but dead fruit ?

9. Who was Anodos, beloved by a beech and hated by an ash and an alder ? 10. In what English abbey does a thorn grow, said by tradition to have been planted there eighteen hundred years ago ? 11. Whose death-song was about a " Green Willow " 12.- When did the bramble accept the crown rejected by the olive, the Bgteee and the vine.? -:. , 13. Who wrote the story of the life and death of an egoistic fir tree ?

Answers will be found on page 720.