^OF DREAMS This Sweet Mignonette itself grows as a 

 common weed in Northern Africa, whence it 

 came into Italy nearly two hundred years ago, 

 to be prized in our gardens as "little darling." 

 They were only common wild flowers that 

 Jesus meant when He said, "Consider the 

 lilies/' but to Him their splendor outshone the 

 magnificence of the most glittering of Jewish 

 kings. 



How much would be lost if the small and 

 lowly of the garden had been left out! I like 

 to recall the words of a dear old lady who said 

 of her pansies, "I love the little things best 

 of all. They look up into the face of their 

 Heavenly Father as if they hadn't anything 

 to be ashamed of." 



It is not admiration so much as love that 

 these simple flowers command. There must be 

 something very human in the common flowers. 

 There must be a very close relationship, since 

 they appeal to something so very deep in us. 



The mignonette has a charm wholly its own. 

 We were drawn to it by its delicately refined 

 scent. 



To many persons the odor-giving properties 



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