CALENDULA

Take a pint of salt water and put it into a glass; and first wash it with rose-water and marigold- water; the flowers to be gathered toward the east. Wash it till the oil becomes white, then put into the vase, and then put thereto the hazelnut leaves, and the thyme must be gathered neared the side of a hill ; and take the oil in the vase; then all these to dissolve in three day in the Sun.

LEMON BALM

Encyclopedia of Herbs states;

Brush this herb's leaves and your fingers will Small of lemon with a hint of mint, fragrance that has endeared lemon balm to people for at least 2,000 years. But brush carefully-honeybees swarm over the pant; you may end up with a lemon-scented sting.

LEMON VERBENA

Encyclopedia of Herbs states; Here is an herb that migrated from the New World to the the Old Lemon verbena is an unassuming shrub that charmed the Spanish explorers who happened upon it in Argentina and Chile. There, the shrubs grow to 10 or 15 feet tall, but because they are so sensitive to cold weather, North Americans usually confine them to containers. The delicate lemony aroma works well by itself as a body scent, and it is an aroma that people seem to find intimate. The leaves were used as an after-bath body rub, and the scent naturally found its way into commercial soaps and bath oils. In Gone with the Wind, lemon verbena is mentioned as the favorite fragrance of Scarlet O'Hara's mother. And in Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of Mrs.Benjamin Rush, the woman wears a sprig of the herb.

Rose

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When Cleopatra invited Mark Anthony to her palace,she had the floors covered knee-deep in rose petals; such was her belief in the romantic powers of their perfume. Cleopatra won Anthony's affections easily, and in part, at least, she can thank the fragrance of roses and their exquisite beauty, Roses captivate anyone who look on them or breathes their perfume. Perhaps it is our love affair with roses that has inspired us to define them as the greatest symbol of love and beauty.

Willow

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EVOLUTION AND THE WILLOW

Willow flowers, those fuzzy, yellowish catkin, illustrate a stage in evolution.

They show that willow are evolving from being insect-pollinated to being wind-pollinated. Petals, which serve no purpose on a plant that doesn't need the services of pollinating creatures, interfere with breezes; they don't exist on a willow flower.

The male parts of the flowers, the stamens, are bunched together in a tight catkin, exposed to the wind. The female flowers also are grouped together in catkins, free from petals and exposed to the pollen-bearing wind. That the willow aren't fully free of insect help in pollination is attested to by the fact that the female flowers still produce nectar to attract insect.

Herb

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Everyone appreciates the conspicuous and flamboyant beauty of larger wildflowers, but how many have thrilled to the sheer beauty of the thrice-pinnate foliage of the common yarrow that grows by every roadside? How many have ever seen the intricate beauty of the many wildflowers that are so tiny they must be studied under a magnifying glass? Once the eye is trained to see these things, one finds that nature has surrounded us with breath-taking beauty that largely goes unobserved and unappreciated.

Violet

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''Sweet violet, sweeter than all the roses."

In the seasonal soap opera of the garden, the Violet plays the part of the ingenue. Its understated beauty, down-turned head, subtle sorrowful color,fleeting fragrance, and general air of artless innocence make us ever fearful that the violet may be overlooked, and therefore we seldom overlook it. We can also use the violet in cooking and medicine, although there it goes in and out of favor, the more sentimental of ages the better.