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Sweet alyssum

noun
1.
Perennial European plant having clusters of small fragrant usually white flowers; widely grown in gardens.  Synonyms: Lobularia maritima, sweet alison.





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... garden and across Miss Sally Ruth Dexter's you could see in Major Appleby Cartwright's yard the peach trees in pink party dresses, ruffled by the wind. Down the paths marched my mother's daffodils and hyacinths, with honey-breathing sweet alyssum in between. Robins and wrens, orioles and mocking-birds, blue jays and jackdaws, thrushes and blue-birds and cardinals, all were busy house-building; one heard calls and answers, saw flashes of painted wings, followed by outbursts of ecstasy. If one should lay one's ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
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