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Reseda odorata. Sweet-scented Reseda 
or Mignonette. 
Clafs and Order . 
Dodecandria Trigynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 1-phyllus, partitus. Petala laciniata. Cap/, ore dehifcens, 
l-locularis. 
Specif c Character and Synonyms . 
RESEDA odorata foliis integris trilobifque, calycibus florem 
aequantibus. Linn. Syjl. Vegetal, p. 449. 
RESEDA foliis integris trilobifque, floribus tetragynis. 
Mill. Dili. t. 217. 
Mignonette grows naturally in Egypt, it was unknown to 
the older Botanifts ; Miller fays, he received the feeds of 
it from Dr. Adrian Van Royen, Profelfor of Botany at 
Leyden, fo that it is rather a modern inhabitant of our 
gardens. 
The luxury of the pleafure-garden is greatly heightened 
by the delightful odour which this plant diffufes ; and as it 
is mod readily cultivated in pots, its fragrance may be con- 
veyed to the parlour of the reclufe, or the chamber of the 
valetudinarian; its perfume, though not fo refrefhing perhaps 
as that of the Sweet-Briar, is not apt to offend on continuance 
the mod delicate olfa&ories. 
Being an annual, it requires to be raifed yearly from feed ; 
when once introduced on a warm dry border, it will continue 
to fow itfelf, and grow very luxuriantly, flowering from June 
to the commencement of winter ; but as it is defirable to 
have it as early as poffible in the fpring, the bed way is either 
to fow the feed in pots in autumn, fecuring them through the 
winter in frames, or in a greenhoufe, or to raife the feeds 
early on a gentle hot-bed, thinning the plants, if they require 
it, fo as to have only two or three in a pot. 
