FRAGRANT FLOWERS AND LEAVES 297 



raised came from England and that, as she put it, they 

 were fussy, troublesome things, as those sown one 

 season had to be lifted and wintered in the cold pit 

 and get just so much air every day, and be planted 

 out in the border again in April. Aunt Lavinia rec- 

 ognized them as the same border carnations over 

 which she had raved when she first saw them in 

 the trim gardens of Hampton Court. Can either you 

 or Evan tell me more of them and why we do not 

 see them here? Before long I shall go garden mad, 

 I fear; for after grooming the place into a generally 

 decorative and floriferous condition of trees, shrubs, 

 vines, ferns, etc., will come the hunger for specialties 

 that if completely satisfied will necessitate not only 

 a rosary, a lily and wild garden, a garden rather 

 than simply a bed of sweet odours, and lastly a 

 garden wholly for the family of pinks or carnations, 

 whichever is the senior title. I never thought of 

 these last except as a garden incident until I saw their 

 possibilities in Mrs. Marchant's space of fragrant 

 leaves and flowers. 



The surrounding fences were entirely concealed by 

 lilacs and syringas, interspersed with gigantic bushes 

 of the fragrant, brown-flowered strawberry shrub ; the 

 four gates, two toward the road, one to the barn-yard, 



