Title: Cyclopedia of practical floriculture
Identifier: cyclopediaofprac00turn (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Turner, Cordelia Harris
Subjects: Floriculture; Flower language
Publisher: New York, T. MacCoun
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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IT illtUtl)a uiliMs. Natural Order: Labiat.t âMint Family. â ijEVERAL plants are known under the common name of mint. , the Spearmint being probably the most agreeable to the taste. ,j It is used in making sauces for some varieties of meat, especially ; lamb; medicinally it is said to allay fevers, and act against spas- modic affections. The Peppermint is well known through the .R- essences sold by all pharmaceutists. Both plants are nati\es Europe, and affect moist places, frequently growing beside shallow streams and in low, wet meadows, where they seem much more brittle and tender, from the amount of water they suck up into their stems. Either plant grows well in the garden, spreading rapidly by ^ means of their creeping roots. The flowers are purple, and in slender racemes. According to mythology, Minthe, a nymph of the woods streams, and beloved by Hades (Pluto), was turned by Proserpine into one of these plants.
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