RESEDA RHODANTHE SALPIGLOSSIS. 207 



RESEDA. 



Mignonette. 



" No gorgeous flowers the meek Reseda grace, 

 Yet sip with eager trunk yon busy race 

 Her simple cup, nor heed the dazzling gem 

 That beams in Fritillaria's diadem." 



Reseda odorata. Common Mignonette. This fragrant 

 hardy annual is too well known to need any description. A 

 bed of it should be found in every garden. It continues to 

 bloom and send forth its sweetness all the season, perfuming 

 the whole region about the premises. Self-sown plants begin 

 to produce flowers in June. The plants are in great demand 

 in and about London and other great cities, being sold in pots 

 and in bouquets. Some idea of the extent of its cultivation 

 may be derived from the fact, which I heard from a creditable 

 London seedsman, that he alone sold a ton and a half of the 

 seed yearly. 



RHODAN'THE. 



Rhodanthe Manglesii. A most delightful plant, from the 

 new English colony at Swan River; it is one of the tribe called 

 everlasting, from its remaining perfect throughout the winter, 

 if gathered when in bloom, and resembles the Helickrysum. A 

 plant exhibited at a meeting of the London Horticultural 

 Society, measured from eighteen inches to two feet in height, 

 and was covered with hundreds of open flowers, and expanded 

 rosy buds ; it remained in blossom three months. 



SALPIGLOSSIS. 



Salpiglossis, from two Greek words, signifying a trumpet 

 and a tongue, in allusion to the tubular, yet tongue-shaped, ex- 

 tremity of the style. 



