From Nectar and Flowers
- A "palatable" brown sugar can be made by boiling down the dew from flowers of the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).
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Famous quotes containing the words nectar and/or flowers:
“‘Tis said as Cupid danced among,
The God he down the nectar flung,
Which on the white rose being shed,
Made it forever after red.”
—Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)
“Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)