Dean was just over 2 months old when the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. The ship sank in less than three hours. Dean was one of 706 people â mostly women and children â who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
Laurel (Laurus nobilis L.) Not to be confused with two other spices often termed bay leaves: Indian bay-leaves and Indonesian bay-leaves. See also allspice on the so-called Caribbean or West-Indian bay-leaves. Leaves. Industrially, laurel oil is prepared from the fruits, which may also be used as a spice with great success.
The second laurel that we all know â Portuguese laurel, Prunus lusitanica â is, I think, superior in every way. It has none of the poisonous, rampant invasiveness of the cherry laurel and yet is a tough, hardy evergreen shrub or small tree that will also make a hedge.It responds really well to clipping â unlike the cherry laurel, which resists it with all its might â so is excellent for rough topiary.omments. The bay (Laurus nobilis) is the only 'true' laurel grown widely in this country, although in other parts of the world there are more than 2,500 other species of tree and shrub laurel.