Excerpt from Diosma: A Perennial

The delicate aromatic ¿owering-shrub, diosma, may be said, both literally and metaphorically, to have been in high odor with the ancients in Greece and Rome. They made it sacred, used it in their temples, and named it after their supreme divinity.

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