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reedy jungle and the spotted tiger.' Mr. Savage 



Landor says more truly 



' Sweet scents 



Are the swift vehicles of still sweeter thoughts, 

 And nurse and mellow the dull memory, 

 That would let drop without them her best stores.' 



But best of all was the excellent use that the late 

 Miss Hope, of Edinburgh, made of her sweet-scented 

 flowers. She was indefatigable in providing comforts 

 for the sick in hospitals, and among the comforts she 

 included a plentiful supply of flowers, but with the 

 proviso that the flowers should be common flowers, and 

 always accompanied with a sprig of some woody, 

 aromatic plant, for the special purpose of recalling 

 memories of home. 



Of all the associations which flowers keep for us, none 

 can equal those connected with persons or places. Of 

 the way in which flowers bring back the memory of 

 friends little can be said; in the pleasure they thus 

 bring they must vary according to the memories they 

 recall, and in not a few cases these memories may be 

 full of sadness and sorrow. But the memories of 

 places which flowers bring back to us must always, I 

 think, be more or less pleasant ; and to pick flowers or 

 to collect plants in various places, and then to be able 

 to grow them in our own gardens, adds much to the 



