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For never rain or dew 
Such fragrance drew 
From plant or flower — the very doubt endears 
My sadness ever new. 
The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee. 
Mignonette owes nothing of its fame to outward show or 
splendour of attire, few flowers being robed more soberly : 
but the uncloying sweetness of its perfume, and its abundant 
growth, render it one of our best garden treasures. It should 
be the emblem of those whose beauty and excellence are 
found in the mind instead of the face. 
External loveliness may well be imaged by the gay and 
brilliant flowers with which the modest Mignonette is 
grouped in the illustration. The Major Convolvulus is one 
of the most elegant of om- common annuals ; but it is devoid 
of fragrance, and is of very short duration. A summer’s day 
finds it withered ere noon; and each morning decks it with 
new blossoms, to bask a few brief hours in the sunshine, 
then shrivel, fall, and pass away. But it would ill become 
me to disparage the beauty of this fair and favomite flower; 
the great profusion and luxm-iance of its blossoms amply 
compensating for their short-lived beauty; and when many 
stems are intertwined, the variety of colom' is extremely 
gay and ornamental. 
My own fond love for Wild Flowers is by this time so 
well known by my readers, that they will not marvel when 
I mention the common White Bind-weed as being, in my 
estimation, the most beautiful of all the Convolvuli. It is 
so very graceful—so lavish of both bloom and foliage so 
