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ment of fragrant varieties of some odorless 

 flowers," he declares. One of the chief manu- 

 facturers of perfumery in this country took the 

 liveliest interest in Burbank's work along this 

 line. He remarked that one of the main reasons 

 why perfumery is not extracted in this country 

 is because people pay so much attention to 

 large things in agriculture — thousand- acre farms 

 and the like — when, in reality, far more money 

 could be made along intensive lines; as, for 

 example, in the line of perfumery production. 



Most kinds of garden flowers are far more 

 beautiful in shape and varied in color than 

 they were in the days of our grandparents. 

 In some of them.it would seem as if the limit of 

 beautification had been reached. / am there- 

 fore convinced that during the next few 

 decades the breeders of ornamental plants 

 will devote their attention more and more 

 to the fragrance of Howers, following the 

 lead of Luther Burbank. In that direction 

 there is room for much improvement. 



PEONIES AND PERENNIAL PHLOX 



Hardly had I written the foregoing page 

 when the rural postman brought me the fall 

 catalogue for 1921 of one of the largest and 

 most reliable seedsmen. Opening it at random 

 on page 27, the heading "Dreer's Fragrant 

 Peonies" stared me in the face — an instance 

 showing how the emphasis is beginning to be 



