Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . THE WILD MIGNONETTE RESEDA LUTEA X/OUR qualities surpass your charms. This X motto stands beneath a sprig of Mignonette on the arms of a certain noble family of Saxony. The story goes that one of its members was once II ^ a b c d. e a, sepals, b, petals, c, stamens, d, ovary, e, fruit. affianced to a capricious Court beauty. One even-ing, in play, she selected a splendid rose to representher; her lady companion, plain and homely, butgood, chose the Mignonette. The coquetries ofthe Beauty that evening brought matters to acli
Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . THE WILD MIGNONETTE RESEDA LUTEA X/OUR qualities surpass your charms. This X motto stands beneath a sprig of Mignonette on the arms of a certain noble family of Saxony. The story goes that one of its members was once II ^ a b c d. e a, sepals, b, petals, c, stamens, d, ovary, e, fruit. affianced to a capricious Court beauty. One even-ing, in play, she selected a splendid rose to representher; her lady companion, plain and homely, butgood, chose the Mignonette. The coquetries ofthe Beauty that evening brought matters to aclimax, and the Count transferred his affections to her companion, presenting her with a sprig of 146. WILD MIGNONETTE The Wild Mignonette Mignonette, and saying, Your qualities surpassyour charms. The remark was not too gallant,perhaps; however, she married him, and hencethe quartering on the arms. But if this motto aptly describes that nownaturalised Eg5^tian weed, the garden mignonette,where the sweetest honey and the most deUghtfulscent—scent specially vivid at sunrise and sundown—grace an otherwise somewhat xmattractive flower,it can scarcely be made to apply to the WildMignonette. This plant, though it boasts of honey,has absolutely no scent, and its yellowish-greenspikes are even less ornamental than those of thegarden plant. Our photograph, however, managesto give it a certain distinction of appearance. Ithas a general unmistakable resemblance to thegarden mignonette in spite of the greater yellow-ness of its flowers, and no one, seeing it even forthe first time, could fail to recognise it, thoughthe recognition usually carries disappointment with it when the expected fragr
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