See also:

• MIGNONETTE, or MIGNONNETTE (i.e. " little darling ")

MIGNONETTE, or MIGNONNETTE (i.e. " little See also:

• DARLING
• DARLING, GRACE HORSLEY (1815-1842)

darling ")  , the name given to a popular See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower, the Reseda odorata of botanists, a " fragrant See also:

• WEED, THURLOW (1797—1882)

weed," as See also:

• COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800)
• COWPER, WILLIAM COWPER, 1ST EARL (c. 1665-1723)

Cowper calls it, highly esteemed for its delicate but delicious perfume . The See also:

• MIGNONETTE, or MIGNONNETTE (i.e. " little darling ")

mignonette is generally regarded as being of See also:

• ANNUAL

annual duration, and is a plant of diffuse decumbent twiggy See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit, scarcely reaching a See also:

• FOOT

foot in height, clothed with bluntish lanceolate entire or three-lobed leaves, and bearing longish spikes—technically racemes—of rather insignificant See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers at the ends of the numerous branches and branchlets . The plant thus naturally assumes the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low dense See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of soft See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green foliage studded over freely with the racemes of flowers, the latter unobtrusive and likely to be overlooked until their diffused fragrance compels See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . It is probably a native of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa and was sent to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England from See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1742; and ten years later it appears to have been sent from See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden to See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip See also:

• MILLER, HUGH (1802–1856)
• MILLER, JOAQUIN (CINCINNATUS HEINE) (1841- )
• MILLER, JOE (JosEPH or JosIAS( (1684-1738)
• MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN (1816-1890)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1782-1849)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1795-1861)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1796–1882)
• MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (18o1–188o)

Miller at See also:

• CHELSEA

Chelsea . Though originally a slender and rather straggling plant, there are now some improved garden varieties in which the growth is more compact and vigorous, and the inflorescence bolder, though the odour is perhaps less penetrating . The small six-petalled flowers are somewhat curious in structure: the two upper petals are larger, See also:

• CONCAVE

concave, and furnished at the back with a tuft of See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club-shaped filaments, which gives them the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of being deeply incised, while the two lowest petals are much smaller and undivided; the most conspicuous See also:

• PART

part consists of the anthers, which are numerous and of a brownish red, giving the See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone of See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour to the inflorescence . In the varieties named See also:

• GOLDEN

Golden See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen and Golden Machet the anthers have a decided tint of See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

orange-yellow, which imparts a brighter golden See also:

• HUE

hue to the See also:

• PLANTS

plants when in blossom . A handsome proliferous or See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double-flowered variety has also been obtained, which is a very useful decorative plant, though only to be propagated by cuttings; the double See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white flowers grow in large massive panicles (proliferousracemes), and are equally fragrant with those of the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary forms . What is called See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree mignonette in gardens is due to the skill of the See also:

• CULTIVATOR

cultivator . Though practically a See also:

• BRITISH

British annual, as already noted, since it flowers abundantly the first See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, and is utterly destroyed by the autumnal frosts, and though recorded as being annual in its native See also:

• HABITAT (a French word derived from habiter, Lat. habitare, to dwell)

habitat by See also:

• DESFONTAINES, RENE LOUICHE (1750-1833)

Desfontaines in the See also:

• FLORA

Flora Atlantica, the mignonette, like many other plants treated in England as annuals, will continue to grow on if kept in a suitable temperature . More-over, the See also:

• LIFE

life of certain plants of this semi-annual See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character may be prolonged into a second season if their flowering and seeding are persistently prevented . In applying these facts to the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of tree mignonette, the gardener grows on the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young plants under See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass, and prevents their flowering by nipping off the blooming tips of the shoots, so that they continue their vegetative growth into the second season .

The young 'plants are at first supported in an erect position, the laterals being removed so as to secure clean upright stems, and then at the height of one or two feet or more, as may be desired, a See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of branches is encouraged to develop itself . In this way very large plants can be produced . For ordinary purposes, however, other plans are adopted . In the open See also:

• BORDERS, THE

borders of the flower garden mignonette is usually sown in See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring, and in See also:

• GREAT

great part takes care of itself ; but being a favourite either for window or See also:

• BALCONY (Ital. balcone from balco, scaffold; cf. O. H. Ger. balcho, beam, Mod. Ger. Balken, Eng. balk)

balcony culture, and on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its fragrance a welcome inmate of See also:

• TOWN

town conservatories, it is`also very extensively grown as a pot plant, and for See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market purposes with this See also:

• OBJECT

object it is sown in pots in the autumn, and thinned out to give the plants requisite space, since it does not transplant well, and it is thereafter specially grown in pits protected from frosts, and marketed when just arriving at the blooming See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . In this way hundreds of thousands of pots of blooming mignonette are raised and disposed of See also:

• YEAR

year by year . In classifying the odours given off by plants Rimmel ranks the mignonette in the class of which he makes the See also:

• VIOLET

violet the type; and See also:

• FEE

Fee adopts the same view, referring it to his class of " iosmoids " along with the violet and wallflower . The genus Reseda contains about fifty See also:

• SPECIES

species, natives of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• ASIA

Asia . R. luteola, commonly called See also:

• DYER, JOHN (c. 1700-1758)
• DYER, SIR EDWARD (d. 1607)
• DYER, THOMAS HENRY (1804-1888)

dyer's-weed and weld, yields a valuable yellow dye . R. See also:

• ALBA

alba is a See also:

• FINE

fine biennial about 2 ft. high, with erect spikes of whitish flowers .