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uent degree. I have placed in the above list several 

 flowers that are intermittently fragrant, like the 

 hepatica, or liver-leaf. This flower is the earliest, 

 as it is certainly one of the most beautiful, to be 

 found in our woods, and occasionally it is fragrant. 

 Group after group may be inspected, ranging 

 through all shades of purple and blue, with some 

 perfectly white, and no odor be detected, when pre- 

 sently you will happen upon a little brood of them 

 that have a most delicate and delicious fragrance. 

 The same is true of a species of loosestrife growing 

 along streams and on other wet places, with tall 

 bushy stalks, dark green leaves, and pale axillary 

 yellow flowers (probably European). A handful of 

 these flowers will sometimes exhale a sweet fra- 

 grance ; at other times, or from another locality, 

 they are scentless. Our evening primrose is thought 

 to be uniformly sweet-scented, but the past season 

 I examined many specimens, and failed to find one 

 that was so. Some seasons the sugar maple yields 

 much sweeter sap than in others; and even indi- 

 vidual trees, owing to the soil, moisture, and other 

 conditions where they stand, show a great differ- 

 ence in this respect. The same is doubtless true of 

 the sweet-scented flowers. I had always supposed 

 that our Canada violet the tall, leafy-stemmed 

 white violet of our Northern woods was odorless, 

 till a correspondent called my attention to the con- 

 trary fact. On examination I found that, while the 

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