But when Parson Page talked about the sweetest flower, he meant the calycanthus.
"The Land of Long Ago"
Eliza Calvert Hall
But when I go back to Aunt Jane's garden, I pass through the front yard and the back yard between rows of lilac, syringas, calycanthus, and honeysuckle; I open the rickety gate, and find myself in a genuine old-fashioned garden, the homely, inclusive spot that welcomed all growing things to its hospitable bounds, type of the days when there were no impassable barriers of gold and caste between man and his brother man.
"Aunt Jane of Kentucky"
Eliza Calvert Hall
These are from five to six inches in diameter, cream colour on the inside, and exhaling a pleasant perfume like that of calycanthus.
"Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs"
A. D. Webster