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lU'SCLia OLiOrata. Natural Ordp:r: Rcscdacccc — Mignonette Family. 



^N France, Holland, and various other parts of Europe, the 

 Mignonette, originally a native of Egypt and North Africa, 

 is trained into a tree shape, by taking a straight, healthy 

 ant, and bending a piece of willow or whalebone over it, 

 in the shape of a hoop, and tying the shoot to it, and as it 

 increases in height another hoop is added until the plant has 

 become woody. A French writer remarks that she has seen them as 

 old as fifteen years, and even double that age. The flowers, after they 

 have withered, must be removed, in order that it may retain its vital- 

 ity. It grows also in beds or masses, and perfumes the whole garden. 

 Some of the \-arieties are dense and bushy. Though humble and 

 'insignificant, its fragrance makes it a general favorite. Its name in the 

 ^vernacular is from the French and means little darling, its botanical name 



'is from the Latin rcscdo, I assuagt 



four Qualili^s Surpass four Ibarras. 



TT is not mirth, tor mirtli she is too still; 

 *■ It is not wit, which leaves the heart more chill. 

 But that continuous sweetness which with ease 

 Pleases all around it from the 



POR you remember you had set. 



That morning, on the casement edge, 



A long, green box of mignonette, 



And you were leaning from the ledge: 



sh to please. 



— TIk n 



.\nd when I rais 



They met i 

 Such eves! I 



sed my eyes, above 



th two so full and bright - 



vear to vou, mv love, 



That these have 



lost theii 



jht. 



Bp:auties that 



.Still present with i 



from worth arise 



.ice of deities, 



s, though unsighted. 



— Sir y. Suck/in^. 

 T KXO\y the gentleman 



To be of worth and worthy estimation, 

 And not without desert so well reputed. 



— Shakfspt-ari\ 



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'yms tVagrant bloom of garden birth, 



.So modest, yet persuasive — 

 Because the sweet it saps from earth 



By fullness is invasive — [I've met — 

 truest measure of my love, of all the flowers 

 Une '^herbe d'amour" — petite in girth, 



Delicious mignonette! —Mary B. Dodge. 



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