THE flowers now certainly 

 deserve some little mention, 

 as they are very varied, and 

 a large proportion of them 



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 sweet-scented, although, to 

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my surprise, I heard a friend 

 remark lately, " The worst of 

 the flowers here is, that none 

 of them have any scent." I 

 listened patiently, and when 

 the sentence was quite finished, mentioned some 

 dozens of which he had never even heard, much 



