A popular name for Southern-wood, Artemisia Abrotonum, also called, in some districts, Lad’s love.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. 267. The nosegay of ‘boy’s love’ that used to be set by the Prayer-Book of the Sunday maiden.
1876. Besant & Rice, Gold. Butterfly, xiv. 115. Stocks, pansies, boy’s-love, sweet-william—used to be cultivated for their perfume.
