xiii.] " FLOWERS THAT BEST PERFUME THE AIR" 181 



Groups of such things planted on the outlying part 

 of one's garden, spaces between them being filled with 

 patches of low-growing Thyme and Sweet Woodruff, will 

 surely afford altogether new attractions to many when 

 they find themselves brushing against living masses of 

 strange sweetness. 



The Night-scented Stock (Mathiola Bicornis\ an 

 annual not particularly attractive in the daytime, makes 

 its presence felt at sundown ; it should be sown in the 

 early part of April in different parts of the garden, so 

 that its delicious fragrance may be widely diffused. 



Amongst other sweet border flowers are the familiar 

 Lily of the Valley, Chinese Paeonies, Snapdragons, Sweet 

 William, Tobacco, some Salvias, the Musk Hyacinth, and 

 Pansy. 



" Gold-dusted Snapdragon, 

 Sweet William with his homely cottage smell, 



And Stocks in fragrant flow ; 

 Roses that down the alleys shine afar, 

 And open, jasmine-muffled lattices, 

 And groups under the dreaming garden trees, 

 And the full moon, and white evening star." 



Then there are some aromatic things, such as Tansy, 

 Chamomile, or the Eucalyptus.* 



The scents of wild Roses are as various and tender 

 as their colours, and those of Scotch Briars have a delicacy 



* This interesting and strongly aromatic tree will only stand the 

 English winter in the most favoured parts of Devon and Cornwall, 

 though in some places in Ireland it has attained to a great size. The 

 leaves have been found to possess a singularly effective healing 

 quality when applied to old sores, 



