mayflower's

Would we not like to grasp an enjoyment less merely of the senses from the geranium's balm and the mayflower's spice?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

That mysterious resurrection of the dead was nature's irresistible glad leap to meet the sun, as the noonday shadows shortened day by day; that happy life to come was the far-off summer, when the wind would sigh and whisper again among the branches he had so rudely handled in his wrath, when all the air would smell of the warm pines, when the mayflower would follow the hawthorn, and the purple gentian take the mayflower's place, when the wild pea-blossom would elbow the forest violet, and the clover and wild thyme and mint would spring up thick and crisp and sweet for the dainty roebuck and his doe.

Greifenstein 1881