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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Indian tree furnishing the sweet-smelling gumknown as olihanum, which is supposed to be the Frankincense of theancients, and still used for its grateful perfume in Roman CatholicChurches. Every part gives out a lemon-like fragrance. Boussingaultia baselloides.—A vigorous tropical climbing plantbearing racemes of small white Hawthorn-scented flowers; propa-gated from tubers, which grow like green potatoes at the joints ofthe leaves, and are said to be edible. Bouvardia.—This lovely winter flowering plant was introduced tocultivation by Baron Humboldt, who found the original form duringhis travels in Mexico ; it used to be treated as a stove plant, buthardier varieties have been raised that will stand the cooleratmosphere of an ordinary greenhouse. The flowers carry a fine and delicate colour, ranging from purewhite to bright scarlet ; there is also a yellow variety, and most ofthem possess an exquisite Jasmine odour, greatly appreciated inbouquets and decorations generally. .: ■
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Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.. Lith. CYCLAMEN. SWEET-SMELLING PLANTS 17 Bramble. See Rubus. _Broom. See Cytisus. Brugmansia suaveolens.—A grand shrubby tree from the East, pro-fuse in radiant liliaceous trumpet-flowers, protruding with theirdelicate whiteness from a rich and downy foliage. Towards eveningespecially, when the shades of night obscure these beauties fromthe eye, their delicious fragrance diffuses through the surrounding-atmosphere a perfume of unequalled sweetness. We cultivate itin warm greenhouses in this country; in the tropics it coversa large area, and is a splendid sight as an ornamental tree out ofdoors, and its striking beauty, when bearing hundreds of thesegigantic tubular flowers, cannot be described. Brunsfelsia.—Shrubs or small trees from Central America, with hand-some fragrant flowers, both blue and white. B. americana bearssalver-shaped blossoms, with a yellow tube fading to white, veryodoious when freshly gathered. Brunsvigia coranica.—A bulbous pl

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