Definition of "marjorum"

‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose,‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower,‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy,‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!

1847, Modern Standard Drama, page 31

The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.

1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449

Amaracus, a page of Cynarus, King of Cyprus, was so afflicted at having accidentally broken a vase which he was entrusted, and thus spilling a very precious ointment which it contained, that he died of grief, and the pitying gods changed him into the fragrant marjorum.

1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 42, page 45

“The primrose, the spring’s own spouse;Bright day’s eyes, and the lips of cows;The garden star, the queen of May,The rose to crown the holiday—Rain roses still:Bring corn, flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower,Flower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth,Bring gladdest myrtle,With spikenard weaved, and marjorum between;And starred with yellow-golds and meadows’ green—The breath thereof Panchaia may envy,The colors China, and the light the sky.

1858, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 44, page 69