This is a horse chestnut.

Is this a stallion or a mare?

Mare, Die Zeitschrift der Meere, Hamburg, Germany

Actually, you know that old philosophical thing, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen? Remember that old chestnut?

For starters, the Mediterranean Sea has been all but abandoned to human smugglers. The Mare Nostrum is gradually becoming the kind of vast and watery mass grave described by a faraway poet.

The scientific name for the money tree is Malabar Chestnut , a tropical plant native to Mexico. It performs best in warm and damp conditions, and its flowers will only bloom under appropriate conditions such as sunlight, water and nutriments.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

But he wrote in this book, Ideal Marriage he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man, which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell, and the semen of mature men, whose semen smelled quote, Remarkably like that of the flowers of the Spanish chestnut.

In other words, allowing children to drown is a legitimate deterrent. Back in the real world, the desperation and aspiration driving people to flee outweigh the risks posed by the crossing meaning that the closure of Mare Nostrum will do nothing to reduce the number of people attempting the journey to Europe.

Instead, acting on the EU s founding values, member states should co finance a search and rescue operation along the lines of Mare Nostrum strengthen their efforts to protect the rights of refugees and share the burden of granting asylum. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Sweden took in 70 of those granted refugee status in the EU last year.

The EU acted quickly in the aftermath of the drowning of more than 1,000 migrants in a particularly horrific episode in April, tripling the budget of its much maligned naval surveillance operations and expanding their operational area to match Italy s discontinued Mare Nostrum operation. This move has already borne fruit, with record numbers of rescues late last month.

Last November, Italy suspended its Mare Nostrum rescue operation (which it launched in 2013, after more than 300 migrants drowned off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa), because other EU member states refused to share the costs some 9 million ( 10.6 million) a month. In its place, the EU border agency, Frontex, has begun conducting a limited coastal mission called Operation Triton.