Catmint.
A Garden Corner
CEVERAL PLANTS have a strange attraction for the domestic cat, the two most pronounced being the useful catmint, Repeta musseni, and that showy annual, Remophila. Both are cat attracters in the full sense, and in the late summer their appearance in the flower border is apt to be quite spoilt by the attention of pussy. It must be due to the scent liberated by the cat’s rolling over the plant, for the performance will be repeated day after day until the plants are flattened right out. Repeta musseni is a Siberian plant, which explains its hardihood. The name is after the town of Repet, in Tuscany, and has nothing to do with its country of origin. Although this is the most familiar of the family, the Repeta genus is quite a big one. with members well spread over Europe, South Africa and Britain. Some of them have distinct value for medicinal purposes. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20455, 7 November 1934, Page 14
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