Archive image from page 231 of Cyclopedia of practical floriculture (1884). Cyclopedia of practical floriculture cyclopediaofprac00turn Year: 1884 i} 'lia,iii0ticite. lU'SCLia OLiOrata. Natural Ordp:r: Rcscdacccc â Mignonette Family. N France, Holland, and various other parts of Europe, the Mignonette, originally a native of Egypt and North Africa, is trained into a tree shape, by taking a straight, healthy ant, 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
Archive image from page 231 of Cyclopedia of practical floriculture (1884). Cyclopedia of practical floriculture cyclopediaofprac00turn Year: 1884 i} 'lia,iii0ticite. lU'SCLia OLiOrata. Natural Ordp:r: Rcscdacccc â Mignonette Family. N France, Holland, and various other parts of Europe, the Mignonette, originally a native of Egypt and North Africa, is trained into a tree shape, by taking a straight, healthy ant, 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 \-arieties are dense and bushy. Though humble and 'insignificant, its fragrance makes it a general favorite. Its name in the vernacular is from the French and means little darling, its botanical name 'is from the Latin rcscdo, I assuagt four Qualilis Surpass four Ibarras. TT is not mirth, tor mirtli she is too still; â It is not wit, which leaves the heart more chill. But that continuous sweetness which with ease Pleases all around it from the POR you remember you had set. That morning, on the casement edge, A long, green box of mignonette, And you were leaning from the ledge: sh to please. â TIk n .\nd when I rais They met i Such eves I sed my eyes, above th two so full and bright- vear to vou, mv love, That these have lost theii jht. Bp:auties that .Still present with i from worth arise .ice of deities, s, though unsighted. â Sir y. Suck/in. T KXO\y the gentleman To be of worth and worthy estimation, And not without desert so well reputed. â Shakfspt-ari\ 'yms tVagrant bloom of garden birth, .So modest, yet persuasive â Because the sweet it saps from earth By fullness is invasiveâ [I've me
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