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liLstlUl Oliorata. Natural Order: Rcscdacccc — Mignonette Family. 
France, Holland, and various other parts of Europe, the 
Mignonette, originally a native of Egypt and North Africa, 
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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 
A ^vernacular is from the French and means little darling, its botanical name 
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jT'OR you remember you had set, 
That morning, on the casement edge, 
A long, green box of mignonette, 
• And you were leaning from the ledge: 
OEAUTIES that from worth arise 
Are, like the grace of deities, 
TT 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. 
And when I raised my eyes, above 
They met with two so full and bright — 
Such eyes! I swear to you, mv love, 
That these have never lost their lio-ht. 
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— Tennyson. 
r J''HIS fragrant bloom of garden birth, 
Still present with us, though unsighted. 
— Sir J. Suckling. 
J KNOW the gentleman 
To be of worth and worthy estimation, 
And not without desert so well reputed. 
— Shakespeare. 
So modest, yet persuasive — 
Because the sweet it saps from earth 
By fullness is invasive — [I’ve met — 
Is 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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