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mind, when sowing, the two kinds of sweet Sultana, Amberboa mos- 

 chata and odorata, nice for warm borders, also the Moldavian balm 

 (Dracocephalum Moldavicum), pleasant smelling, but not con- 

 spicuously beautiful ; and, if rather pungent and distinct odours 

 are cared for, the "Balm of Gilead " (D. canariense), which 

 is readily raised from seed, and does well against a wall or in a green- 

 house. The common bahn of the herb ground (jM. officinalis) is 

 perhaps, the most blandly, agreeably-scented plant we have ; but it 

 is perennial, as many of the best sweet-scented things are. 



The great majority of suburban and country gardens offer quiet 

 isolated spots where an arrangement of these flowers would be par- 

 ticularly appropriate ; where the musk hyacinth might keep company 

 with the lily of the valley, the sweetbriar dwell in the background 

 among honeysuckle, and behind it boughs that bear "the hawthorn's 

 blossom," while the ground might be covered over with the green of 

 the sweet woodroofe (Asperula odorata), as it is in some of the 

 college gardens afc Oxford and in many woods and shrubberies. 

 Primroses should abound along the margins, and an odd patch of 

 musk in a moist place, if the owner cares for it ; but freely and 

 above all should abound tufts of the common mixed varieties of 

 polyanthus, wdiich are so sweet and so pleasantly varied. " Finest 

 mixed Polyanthus " is probably the name the seed may be bought 

 by ; and in one year from the time of sowing an abundant flowering 

 crop may be had. It is particularly desirable to use these freely 

 around shrubbery borders, etc., in comparatively shady spots. A 

 narcissus (odorus), sometimes called the jonquil, is a free-flowering 

 and gratefully and delicately scented plant, free to grow, and capital 

 for borders where sweet flowers are a desideratum. Some of the 

 irises are sweet, particularly persicum and reticulata. 



One particularly neglected fragrant climber is Clematis flammula, 

 than which there is not in the nurseries a more delightful subject 

 for training over an old stump in a shrubbery, over a trellis, or, 

 indeed, in positions where a climber is desired. It does for the 

 autumnal garden what the hawthorn does for the early summer. I 

 remember having much admired several masses of it twining round 

 old stumps near Frogmore House when at AVindsor last autumn. It 

 is very cheap, hardy, and most useful for cutting from, for indoor 

 decoration, wreaths of flowers, etc. I am not sure that it would do 

 so well for the London gardens as the sweet jasmine, which it is such 

 a pleasure to see doing gloriously even far into London, but it might 

 be tried with advantage. Against low warm walls in front of green- 

 houses, and under the windows of houses with good aspect, it is, I 

 think, a pity that we do not oftener grow a nice little line of such 

 things as the myrtles and sweet verbena. Even about London they 

 could not fail to do well ; in the south they make small trees without 

 any attention. But there is another wall shrub to which attention 

 should be directed far more than it has yet been. I allude to the 

 deliciously sweet Chimonanthus fragrans ; the most wortliy of all 

 shrubs of being placed in a warm corner against a wall, let that 

 belong to terrace, house, outhouse, or cottage. In winter, a i'ew 

 sprigs of this pulled and placed in a vase of flowers in the drawing- 



