* Fragrant twigs of silver birch are used in saunas to relax the muscles.

This also included some species that are not locally native including Tulip Tree, Fragrant Sumac and Eastern Redbud.

Fragrant rices that are derived from basmati stock but are not true basmati varieties include PB2 ( also called sugandh-2 ), PB3, and RH-10.

Although the architect still ached from the experience with Fragrant Hill, he agreed to accept the commission.

Another story from the Precious Scroll of Fragrant Mountain describes an incarnation of Guanyin as the daughter of a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man.

In May of 2012, self-proclaimed " Middle Eastern-psych-snap-gospel " band Yeasayer officially released " Henrietta ", the first single from their third album " Fragrant World ".

* Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor, a collection of unique local words and senses.

Rondeletia odorata ( the Fragrant Panama rose ) is originally from and Cuba.

The provincial flower is ดอกโสน ( Dok Sano ) Sesbania aculeata, and the provincial tree is the Fragrant Manjack ( Cordia dichotoma ).

Finally she relented and came to love him when he sent messengers to Kashgar to return with an jujube tree bearing golden fruit, and the Fragrant Concubine became the emperor's cherished consort until her death.

He returned to China for the first time in 1974 to design a hotel at Fragrant Hills, and designed a skyscraper in Hong Kong for the Bank of China fifteen years later.

Pei was surprised by public resistance to his traditional design of the hotel at Fragrant Hills.

After surveying a number of different locations, Pei fell in love with a valley once used as an imperial garden and hunting preserve, known as Fragrant Hills.

Whereas 200 or so workers might have been used for a similar building in the US, the Fragrant Hill project employed over 3, 000 workers.

The Fragrant Hill Hotel opened on October 17, 1982, but fell into disrepair almost immediately afterwards.

As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.

When Chiang penned the work, he believed that the Guanyin we know today was actually a princess called Miaoshan ( 妙善 ), who had a religious following on Fragrant Mountain.

It is said that Yama, the ruler of hell, sent her back to Earth to prevent the utter destruction of his realm, and that upon her return she appeared on Fragrant Mountain.

Another tale says that Miaoshan never died, but was in fact transported by a supernatural tiger, believed to be the Deity of the Place, to Fragrant Mountain.

The monk further suggested that such a person could be found on Fragrant Mountain.

Miaozhuangyan was cured of his illness and went to the Fragrant Mountain to give thanks to the person.

After some decades Guanyin returned to Fragrant Mountain to continue her meditation.

The Fragrant Orchid ( Gymnadenia conopsea ) is an herbaceous plant belonging to the family Orchidaceae.

The Fragrant Orchid ( Gymnadenia conopsea ) has been introduced into the USA.

The other four will be the Fragrant Garden, Terrace Garden, Foliage Valley and Ethnobotany Garden.

The batik motif symbolizes the ‘ Fragrant Ray of Life ’ and endows the wearer with elegance.

The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

Hsiang-shan County ( Chinese: 香山縣, Wade-Giles: Hsiang-shan Hsien, Pinyin: Xiāngshān Xiàn ; literally " Fragrant Mountain "; also spelt Siang-shan ) was a county in southern China.

* Biryani: Fragrant dish of long-grained aromatic rice combined with beef, mutton, or chicken and a mixture of characteristic spices.

* Polau ( See Pilaf ): Fragrant dish of rice with ghee, spices and small pieces of vegetables.

In the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition there are reports of particular, Wonderworking icons that exude myrrh ( fragrant, healing oil ), or perform miracles upon petition by believers.

In rhotic dialects of English, as in Canada and the United States, there are many words such as bird, learn, girl, church, worst, wyrm, myrrh which some phoneticians analyze as having no vowels, only a syllabic consonant.

There, assisted by Nicodemus, Joseph took the body and wrapped it in the fine linen and applied myrrh and aloes ( these are substances which Nicodemus had brought, according to John 19: 39 ).

The hard transparent resins, such as the copals, dammars, mastic and sandarac, are principally used for varnishes and adhesives, while the softer odoriferous oleo-resins ( frankincense, elemi, turpentine, copaiba ) and gum resins containing essential oils ( ammoniacum, asafoetida, gamboge, myrrh, and scammony ) are more largely used for therapeutic purposes and incense.

In the more arid highlands of the northeast, Boswellia and Commiphora trees are sources, respectively, of the frankincense and myrrh for which Somalia has been known since ancient times.

The Modern English word myrrh ( Old English: myrra ) derives from the Latin Myrrha ( or murrha or murra, all are synonymous Latin words for the tree substance ).

Though Myrrha abandoned her human feelings when she was transformed, she still mourns her tragic fate and her tears, being the drops oozing from the tree's bark, are today known as myrrh.

" It has been suggested that these plant juices being compared to tears are a parallel to Myrrha's tears being the drops of myrrh exuding from the myrrh-tree.

There are two main varieties of myrrh: bisabol and herabol.

However, non-rasayana myrrh is contraindicated when kidney dysfunction or stomach pain is apparent, or for women who are pregnant or have excessive uterine bleeding.

The imports to this are as aforesaid 8 mentions iron, gold, silver, drinking cups, etc., and from it likewise are exported the same goods 8 mentions myrrh, douaka, makeir, and slaves, and fragrant gum called mokrotou ( cf.

" Opoponax is a variety of myrrh ; bdellium is Commiphora wightii, which produces a similar resin ; and Aristolochia is a widely distributed genus which includes Aristolochia pfeiferi, Aristolochia rugosa and Aristolochia trilobata that are used in folk medicine to cure snakebites ..

But myrrh can only be harvested from special " myrrh trees ", which are almost exclusively found in dungeons filled with monsters and other hostile creatures.

The people collecting myrrh often use a caravan as a means of conveyance, and so are often called " caravanners ", and their caravans are often called " crystal caravans ".

In the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament probably used by Matthew, these gifts are given as gold and frankincense, similar to Matthew's " gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Three boys are selected from the three neighbouring villages of Quelim, Cansaulim and Arrosim to present the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh in a procession.

Such are the pretensions of the Benzoin to be looked upon as the true Onycha, which, from the text, as I have already said, must have been some fragrant vegetable gum in itself, of foreign production, and ranking with stacte, and myrrh, and galbanum.

Shamsherai ( I Chronicles 8: 26 ), while Mordekhai is probably derived from Marduk, or may be derived from " pure myrrh "), as are Belteshazzar ( Daniel 10: 1 ), Shenazar ( I Chronicles 3: 18 ), and Sheshbazzar ( Ezra 1: 8 ) from other deities.

He is surrounded by hunters instead of shepherds, and the Magi are portrayed as " chiefs from afar " that bring him " fox and beaver pelts " instead of the more familiar gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

In this are dissolved three other oils ; oil of myrrh, oil of cinnamon, oil of galangal.