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sweet sultannounA Near Eastern plant of the daisy family, with sweet-scented flowers, slender stems, and narrow grey-green leaves.- Centaurea moschata, family Compositae.
Books from the 1930's and 40's depict expansive annual gardens, heavy with hollyhocks, nasturtiums, larkspur, sweet sultans and anchusas....- Wreaths of phlox decorated each side mixed with candy tuft and sweet sultans.
- It somewhat resemble tiny sweet sultans or bachelor's buttons; but it is a rude, stocky, useless weed, with a stout, hard stem which cumbers the ground.
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