Sweet rose of my nose

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Then this one surely is a nasal treat.

Though colours bright and breezy please the eye,

Lathyrus O, your scent must win the day.

Oh fragrant beauty you are my desire,

Your perfume truly sets my soul afire.

I'd gladly pluck your petals night or day,

Your blooms, the kitchen mantle to display.

So if, dear guest, you wonder what bouquet

Pervades the house throughout, I say, you may

Enquire, and I will gladly tell you so:

It is the sweet pea's perfume don't ya know?

O ~ 0 ~ o ~

Never heard of Lathyrus Odoratus before? Me neither, until I looked up the scientific name of the flowering plant popularly known as the sweet pea, for reasons which are obvious if you look at, and then smell, one in bloom.

Source: www.rhs.org.uk

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