Magnolia – named for Pierre Magnol, a director of the French Botanic Gardens, during the eighteenth century. The American Magnolia grandiflora or Bull Bay magnolia is native to the balmy Southern states and the Gulf of Mexico. It is an evergreen, and flowers in early summer. It
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes How true that quote is. After my mother died I treasured a cardigan she had worn that retained her special fragrance. It was a
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