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may be questioned whether the world would 

 not be better off with four senses instead of 

 five. It would seem, though, that to the latter 

 class the choice of the two odors was a matter 

 of taste, and that the near proximity of the 

 sty and the absence of the roses indicated their 

 preference. 



But a man with a cultivated, indeed we may 

 say broadly, a civilized nose, is blessed in a gar- 

 den. We have all noticed how a drop or two of 

 some powerful perfume falling on a book, table, 

 or garment will distil its faint deliciousness for 

 weeks and months. Not a little of the essence 

 of Eden has fallen on the modern garden, and 

 lingers there from early spring till winter. I do 

 not refer to a cabbage patch on the wane, or 



anything else on the wane, which slovenly gar- 



i 

 deners leave around ; and it is not for me to 



irreverently dispute the voice of antiquity in re- 

 gard to the onion. I must admire here as in 



