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Identifier: sweetscentedflow00mcdo (find matches)
Title: Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant leaves, interesting associations gathered from many sources, with notes on their history and utility
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: McDonald, Donald, 1857-
Subjects: Gardening Flowers Leaves Plants
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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says :— The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shadeLaurel and Myrtle, and what higher grewOf firm and fragrant leaf; . . .Veiled in a crown of fragranceStands Eve alone, half spied. In modern times we find a sprig of Myrtle a leading ornamentin wedding floral arrangements, and the brides bouquet is mcompletewithout it; beyond this, its chief use is in perfumery, particularly in ~ the manipulation of pot-pouris, and a highly odorous water is dis-tilled from its pure white flowers, the leaves also are stronglyscented. There are also yellow and pink flowered kinds. Myrtus pimenta. See Eugenia pimenta. Nabalus albus.—A perennial herbaceous plant from North America,bearing paniculate heads of sweet-scented white flowers. Narcissus (Daffodil, Jonquil),—A beautiful genus of early floweringl)ulbous plants, mostly natives of South Europe. The Narcissusis a member of a family distinguished by the extreme beauty of itsflowers, alike in their forms, and richness, and variety of colouring.
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* Crooks, Day & Son, Lith MIGNONETTE. SWEET-SMELLING PLANTS 8r Many of tliem also are extremely sweet, having a perfume com-pounded apparently of the sweetness of the Lily and the odourof Violets. This favourite flower has been made the emblem ofself-love, from 0^i.ds beautiful and well-known story of the chasteboy Narcissus, who was changed into this plant. Narcissus wasa beautiful youth. Teresias, the soothsayer, foretold that heshould enjoy felicity until he beheld his own face : but that thefirst sight of that would be fatal to him. Every kind of mirrorwas kept carefully out of his way. Echo was enamoured ofhim, but he slighted her love, and she pined and withered awayuntil she had nothing left her but her voice, and even that couldonly repeat the last syllables of other peoples sentences. He atlast saw his o^\ti image reflected in a fountain, and taking it forthat of another, he fell passionately in love with it. He attemptedto embrace it. On seeing the fruitlessness of all h

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Gardening
  • booksubject:Flowers
  • booksubject:Leaves
  • booksubject:Plants
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Charles_Scribner_s_sons
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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