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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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as an article of food,, and theyapply various names to it. according to the dinerent stages of itsgrowth. The garden Angelica gives off a pleasant perfume, andthough much cannot be said for the beauty of its flowers, it is afine bold plant, and on account of its sweetness and lively colourit finds favour wherever grown. Its roots are also fragrant. Theplant will thrive in any fairly good position that is not shaded, andthey are at home in the semi-wild garden, or on the banks of run-ning water. Angelonia grandiflora.—A small herbaceous sub-tropical plant, bear-ing long spikes of small blue flowers, resembling a pine-apple inscent. Angraecum fragrans. See Orchids. Anisotome latifolia.—A handsome umbelliferous plant from the SouthSeas, with purple flowers. The whole plant emits an aromaticsmell when bruised. Anoiganthus luteus.—A South-African bulbous plant, bearing a crownof fine sweet-scented yellow flovN ers, Anona.—A genus of tropical fruiting shruljs and trees found in both
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SWEET-SMELLING PLANTS 9 the East and West Indies. Several species are remarkable fortheir fragrant leaves, notably A, reticulata, with foliage that smellslike black currants. Anthemis nobilis (Chamomile).—A well-known perennial plant that isfound growing wild in many parts of Britain. Its flowers, whichpossess peculiar scented attractions, are largely used for medicinalpurposes. An old writer describes it as the plant physician, fornot only will decoctions, and the dried leaves powdered, destroyinsects, but that nothing contributes so much to the health of agarden as a number dispersed through it. He further adds thatno greenhouse should be without it, for if a plant that is droopingand apparently dying is placed near the Chamomile it will recover.An eminent doctor also affirms that if a piece of the plant is laidunder the pillow it is an effectual preventative of the dreadednightmare. There are two varieties, the single and double, andboth can readily be grown from seed. The Pyreth

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