Lilacs have uncanny ability to unlock many long-lost memories of childhood

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | April 22, 2004| | Copyright

One whiff of a lilac: Often that's all it takes to transport the unwary back to childhood, to Grandmother's garden, walks along a country road or a park where friends would meet in spring and celebrate the world reborn. This uncanny ability to evoke moments long locked away is what earned the common lilac, also known as Syringa vulgaris, and 19 related species their poetic moniker: the flower of memory.

Little wonder that European emigrants en route to a new life in North America took their lilacs with them. Bundled in moistened burlap and cradled in straw, the first treasured cuttings made ...

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