i?8 FROM A MIDDLESEX GARDEN 



fragrant this month even than is its wont. One cannot tell 

 which sweet scent does most prevail, whether that of sweet 

 peas, or mignonette, or honey-scented alyssum. The sweet 

 pea hedge is full of lovely caprices of colour. One set of 

 white blossoms is tinged with pale bluish. . . . Plain white 

 is, after all, the best, perhaps. Nature never planned a 

 lovelier flower of such airy lightness. It might shake its 

 butterfly wings and fly, it is so lightly poised upon the 

 slender stalk ! Perhaps the name ' sweet pea,' and to the 

 sweet freshness of the flower, memories of childhood cling 

 more closely than to any other garden name." 



