Mignonette

Mignonette is a pressed flower Evie gathers for Henry Green's herbarium. Its meaning is a compliment: your qualities surpass your charms.

Set: Pressed Flowers

Good to know

Botanical name: Reseda odorata.
Meaning: your qualities surpass your charms.
The card says the plant came to Britain from Egypt and had been grown there for close to a century.

In the Pressed Flowers memory

Mignonette is the first meaning Henry reads aloud when he and Evie review the herbarium on the train, roughly a dozen flowers in. Evie admits she cannot tell whether the line is meant as a compliment, and the two move on to Love-in-a-Mist.

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