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in the flower garden. We can either grow only 

 those blossoms which are scented or we can 

 impart fragrance to those which have it not — 

 one of the most alluring tasks of plant breeders 

 and educators of the future, following the trail 

 blazed by Burbank. 



Fortunately we need not wait for these floral 

 perfumers of the future, for we have a large 

 number of sweet-scented blossoms of all kinds. 

 (I have already written briefly on this topic in 

 the chapter on "Favorite Garden Flowers," but 

 it is so important that I must dwell on it at 

 greater length.) To name only a few of each 

 kind, we can have a garden and surroundings 

 adorned with fragrant trees like the linden and 

 locust; fragrant bushes like the lilac, mock 

 orange, Bechtel's flowering crab, roses, Tar- 

 tarian honeysuckle, and the heavenly straw- 

 berry bush (calycanthus) ; vines like the Bel- 

 gian and Japanese honeysuckle, roses, grapes, 

 wistaria; bulbs like the hyacinth, tulip, jonquil, 

 poet's narcissus, tuberose; perennial plants like 

 the peony, yellow day lily, carnation, Iceland 

 poppy, phlox, lily-of-the-valley; and a number 

 of annuals, besides divers fragrant herbs. 



For my little nephew I provide every year a 

 special garden of fragrant annual flowers and 

 plants, which I cannot commend too highly as a 

 source of pleasure. The list includes stock, 

 phlox, sweet alyssum, heliotrope, nasturtium, 

 Burbank verbena, lavender, catnip, peppermint, 



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