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shrub, dear to children, and place must be 

 made for the clethras. If there is room for 

 a tree, let it be a crab-apple tree, and if there 

 is a wall, plant sweetbriar and the evergreen 

 honeysuckle beside it. Roses should be 

 chosen solely for their odour-giving properties, 

 and lilies will care for themselves. So will the 

 sweetpeas, if they have a string lattice to 

 cling to. By midsummer the air is full of the 

 wine brewed by the precious mints, the pinks 

 all kinds of pinks heliotropes, some peonies, 

 some phloxes, mignonette, " the bee-alluring 

 thyme," rose geranium, one of the clematis, 

 and certain green things, angelica, artemisia, 

 marjorum, rue, rosemary. Earlier have been 

 the tall heads of an old favourite, called Greek 

 valerian, and a rocket called hesperis, which 

 with small flowers and sweet alyssum make a 

 sweet trio of cruciferous bloom much to be 

 prized. Some pale-coloured verbenas are of 

 a most refreshing and vernal sweetness, and 

 there are citronellas and certain musky-leaved 

 plants not to be found in any catalogue, but 

 which I would search for in forgotten corners 

 where I know they still cling to life. Always 

 the garden may hope for the shy flowering of 



