The Wild Mignonette 



Mignonette, and saying, "Your qualities surpass 

 your charms." The remark was not too gallant, 

 perhaps; however, she married him, and hence 

 the quartering on the arms. 



But if this motto aptly describes that now 

 naturalised Eg5^tian weed, the garden mignonette, 

 where the sweetest honey and the most deUghtful 

 scent — scent specially vivid at sunrise and sundown 

 — grace an otherwise somewhat xmattractive flower, 

 it can scarcely be made to apply to the Wild 

 Mignonette. This plant, though it boasts of honey, 

 has absolutely no scent, and its yellowish-green 

 spikes are even less ornamental than those of the 

 garden plant. Our photograph, however, manages 

 to give it a certain distinction of appearance. It 

 has a general unmistakable resemblance to the 

 garden mignonette in spite of the greater yellow- 

 ness of its flowers, and no one, seeing it even for 

 the first time, could fail to recognise it, though 

 the recognition usually carries disappointment with 



it when the expected fragrance is found lacking. 



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