224 COMPOST SUITABLE FOR CHOROZEMAS. 



cousin with a (lashing colonel, who was more celebrated for his con- 

 quests in the drawing-room than in the field of battle, attracted the 

 notice of the Count, so as to make his uneasiness visible ; upon wliich 

 tlie amiable Charlotte, who, ever studious of Amelia's real happiness, 

 wishing to amuse and to call back the mind of her cousin, demanded 

 the ^'erse for the Rose. Tlie Count saw this affectionate trait in Char- 

 lotte's conduct, took out his pencil, and wrote for the Rose, 



" Elle ne vit qu'un jour, et ne plait- qu'un raohient," 



which he gave to the lovely daughter, at the same time presenting the 

 liumble cousin witli this line on the Mignonette : — 



" Ses qualites surpassent ses charmes." 



Amelia's pride was roused, and she retaliated by her attention to the 

 colonel and neglect of the Count, which she carried so far as to throw 

 herself into the power of a profligate, wiio brougiit her to ruin. The 

 Count transferred his affections from beauty to amiability ; and re- 

 joicing in tlie exchange, and to commemorate the event wiiich had 

 brougiit about his happiness, and delivered him from a coquette, he 

 added a branch of the Sweet Reseda to tlie ancient arms of his family, 

 with the motto, 



" Your qualities surpass your charms." 



The Mignonette is one of the plants whose unassuming little flowers 

 never weary our sight ; it is therefore made the image of those 

 interesting pei-sons whom time camiot change, and who, although 

 deficient in dazzling beauty, attach us for life, when once they 

 have succeeded in pleasing without its aid. Plence it is but a 

 natural desire that we should wish to give an annual plant a perennial 

 existence, which has, in a great measure, been accomplished, since the 

 odorous Tree Mignonette is now frequently to be met with, and which 

 was at first supposed to have been a different variety when Lady 

 Whitshed introduced it from Liege about the year 1816, and who 

 received it from M. L'Abbe L'Arbaleste of that city ; a spot made 

 familiar to many readers, by the scenes which the popular author of 

 Quentin Uurvvard has recited as passing in that ancient commercial 

 town. — Flora Historica. 



COMPOST SUITABLE FOR CHOROZEMAS AND 

 SIMILAR NEW HOLLAND PLANTS. 



Rich fibrous peat, two parts; leaf mould, one part; turfy rich 

 loam, two parts ; clean potsherds and charcoal, broken to the size 

 of liorsebeans, one part ; with sufficient gritty sand to make the 

 whole, when mixed together, light and porous. Time was, and that 

 but a year or two back, wlien cultivators, to secure porosity, used the 

 soil in rough pieces, and " a down westward " cultivator, to show the 

 strength of his affection, has recommended pieces the size of a brick. 

 Thus, tiiough this served tlie purpose of growing the plants rapidly for 



