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colours, and these new varieties, e.g. "Lottie Eckford," 

 " Blanche Burpee," " Prima Donna," " Queen Victoria " 

 are grown to best advantage in groups of separate tints. 

 Half a dozen plants in a group, well grown, protected 

 from slugs, and judiciously staked, are more likely to 

 succeed than a crowd, and will remain much longer in 

 bloom. 



CHAPTER XIII 



FRAGRANT PLANTS 



" The smell of violets, hidden in the green, 



Brought back into my empty soul and frame 

 The time when I remember to have been 

 Joyful and free from blame." 



IN the garden as nowhere else in the world the senses 

 find delight, sight perhaps most of all, but taste and 

 smell in only lesser degrees, and one of the most wel- 

 come revivals of late years has been the wider culture of 

 fragrant flowers, and the growing love for them. Some of 

 the most permanent sensuous impressions of our early days 

 are those distinctly associated with the scent of plants. 



Some sweet-smelling plants are generous of their 

 fragrance, and give it not only spontaneously but lavishly, 

 and for this reason the scents of Hyacinths and Lilies 

 are sometimes found rather disagreeable adjuncts of a 

 room. The border is their proper place, where they 

 may mingle their sweetness with the Tulip and Daffodil, 



