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Which old fashioned flowers were popular 100 years ago?

Mignonette.

The Mignonettes were highly regarded and amongst the most popularof the scented annuals, during the Victorian era.
Botanically known as Reseda, the type known as R. odorata with greenish/white conical heads of flowers in those days, had buff-yellow, orange-buff, cream, golden and red varieties, now lost.

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