•^ Spring Flowering 'Bulbs (££ 



Although the flowers are so small, they scent the air for 

 yards round. It is one of the most attractive of small 

 trees and was introduced from Chile for Messrs. Veitch 

 in 1861. In April, Viburnum Carlesii, the most sweetly 

 scented of all the viburnums, flowers. This is a valuable 

 shrub for small gardens, for it grows only about 3 or 4 

 feet, is very hardy, and its white wax-like flowers with 

 their rich scent are so freely produced. The scent of 

 V . Carlesii is not, I think, quite so attractive as that of 

 V . fragrans, for the scent of the former is curiously 

 artificial. The handsome spring-flowering andromedas 

 are not sweetly fragrant, but for those who like it there 

 is something strangely fascinating in the strong, aromatic, 

 nut-like scent of their thick white sprays of flowers. 

 Flowering somewhat later is the handsome Choisya ternata 

 (the Mexican orange blossom). Then there are the 

 scented heaths, the honey-scented Erica arborea, also 

 E. australis and E. Veitcbii. Fothergilla Gardeni takes 

 little space and its flowers are sweetly fragrant. The 

 delicately scented Japanese apricot (Prunus Mume) and 

 the violet scented American crab (Pyrus coronaria) give 

 surely the most fairy-like of the spring scents. Amongst 

 the showiest of the early flowering shrubs is the commonly 

 grown Berberis Darwinii, an invaluable shrub both in 

 large and small gardens. Its long arched sprays, massed 

 with small orange-golden blossoms, faintly scented, are a 

 joy both in the garden and for indoor decoration. It 

 succeeds well in any soil. Many of the countless Berberis 

 hybrids are very sweetly scented, usually a lily of the 

 valley-like fragrance. Where space is limited, I think 

 most people would include of the early flowering 

 scented shrubs at least Chimonanthus fragrans, Lonicera 



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