CHAP. 27. (9.)—SHRUBS, THE BLOSSOMS OF WHICH ARE USED FOR CHAPLETS.
Having thus passed in review nearly all the best-known
colours, we must now give our attention to the chaplets which
are pleasing merely on account of the variety of their materials. Of such chaplets there are two kinds, one composed of
flowers, the other of leaves. The flowers so employed, I may
say, are those of broom [Note]—the yellow blossom gathered from
it—the rhododendron, [Note] and the jujube, [Note] also known as the
tree of Cappadocia, which bears an odoriferous flower similar
to that of the olive. Among the brambles, too, we find the
cyclaminum growing, of which we shall have to speak more
at length on a future occasion: [Note] its flower, which reflects the
hues of the purple of Colossæ, [Note] is used as an ingredient in
chaplets.
