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favourites such as Lady Plymouth, ' Purple Unique,' etc. ; 

 aristocrats such as the variegated 'Prince of Orange,' which 

 is so difficult to grow, all the charming crispums {yarie- 

 gatum, maximum, and minimum). Sweetest scented of 

 all is the well-named ' attar of roses.' Scabrum also is 

 peculiarly sweet scented. (The gardener told me that the 

 original plant at Aldenham came from the Cape in an 

 ordinary parcel). Then there are I onidi folium, the 

 attractive greyish Blanfordianum, artemisifolium betu- 

 linum, Lady Scarborough, Lady Mary, Schotte (tuberous 

 rooted and difficult to propagate), terebintha, saxa- 

 fragoides, Fair Emily, Joan (a sport from Clorinda), 

 tetragonum, abrotani folium, rapaceum, and the enchant- 

 ing, well-named Curly. And these are but a few of these 

 old-fashioned scented treasures in this collection. 



A friend told me that in Greece they make delicious 

 apple jelly flavoured with sweet-scented geranium leaves. 

 One leaf is sufficient for an ordinary preserving pan, and 

 it has to be put in for the last three minutes the jelly is 

 boiling and of course taken out before the jelly is put 

 into pots. It is certainly excellent and gives the apple 

 jelly a suggestion of Turkish Delight flavour. 



Some months ago I read an article 1 in the Bulletin of 

 the Garden Club of America which delighted me, for it 

 was by a lover of sweet-scented geraniums, and I felt 

 that if I met the writer we should be friends at once, 

 because in our childhood we had both loved these sweet- 

 leaved plants. There must be thousands of folk who 

 associate the scent with their childhood, for with the 

 exception of lemon-scented verbena, and ' cherry pie,' 

 there are, I suppose, no scents which attract one more 



1 Sweet-leaved Geraniums by L. B. Wilder. 

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