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attract insects, when it is obvious that those 

 properties were not originally required for the 

 perpetuation of the species ? Why should some 

 flowers of magnificent size, like the magnolia, 

 require scent to attract insects, if we must indeed 

 admit that use and not pleasure is the end and 

 aim of every attraction of the garden ? And if 

 scent is necessary in this case, why is it not 

 so where the flower is small and insignificant ? 

 Why among roses has La France a delicious 

 perfume, and Baroness Rothschild none ? 



But such questionings are inevitable as yet : 

 meanwhile facts are accumulating, and the whole 

 truth, thanks to the patient and laborious workers 

 of our time, may one day be known. 



But quite apart from scientific interests, a real 

 old garden, unaltered and unspoiled, has a pecu- 

 liar interest of its own. It is sure to be haunted 

 by associations, and nothing calls up associations 

 so quickly and certainly as a sudden scent of 

 flowers coming and going upon the summer air. 

 Time and change may have been busy since some 

 long-absent member of the family has revisited 



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