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MMignonette. 
Reseda odorata. Narurat Orper: Resedacee — Mignonette Family. 
Mignonette, originally a native of Egypt and North Africa, 
is trained into a tree shape, by taking a straight, healthy 
plant, 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 varieties are dense and bushy. Though humble and 
‘insignificant, its fragrance makes it a general favorite. Its name in the 
svernacular is from the French and means little darling, its botanical name 
is from the Latin resedo, I assuage. 
Your Quatitigs Surpass Your Charms. 
T is not mirth, for mirth 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 wish to please. 
—The New Timon. 
OR you remember you had set, And when I raised my eyes, above 
That morning, on the casement edge, They met with two so full and bright — 
A long, green box of mignonette, Such eyes! I swear to you, my love, 
And you were leaning from the ledge: That these have never lost their light. 
—Tennyson, 
EAUTIES that from worth arise HIS fragrant bloom of garden birth, 
Are, like the grace of deities, So modest, yet persuasive — 
Still present with us, though unsighted. Because the sweet it saps from earth 
Ot is SUCRE By fullness is invasive— [I’ve met — 
KNOW the gentleman 
To be of worth and worthy estimation, 
i) And not without desert so well reputed. 
Is truest measure of my love, of all the flowers 
Une “herbe d'amour ”— petite in girth, 
— Shakespeare. Delicious mignonette! —sfary B. Dodge. 
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