ORIGIN OF FLOWERS
Has it ever occurred to you to ask where some of our many beautiful flowers come from? We take it for granted they are British, but it is not so in many cases. A correspondent of the "Sunday Times" informs its that it was Napoleon ■who introduced mignonette into Europe from Egypt. The jessamine came .from India, and also the gypsophilia,' which is only a weed there. The michaelmas daisy conies from North America, and it was brought over by the son of a gardener to Charles I and planted in Lambeth. The sweet oca came from Sicily, the phlox from Texas, the tulip from Constantinople, and the syringa from.Persia. Pentstemons came fmni California, the salpiglossis from Chile, blue lobelin from the Cape of Good Hope, and, the primula' from China., pnly tiro red flowers are indigenous to the British flora—they are the red poppy and shepherd's clock or scarlet: pimpernel.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 3
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154ORIGIN OF FLOWERS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 3
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