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Gardening for Amateurs 



out of doors the first 

 week in June. This 

 is a flower to have 

 close at hand, in the 

 window-box or in 

 the border beneath 

 the window. In the 

 evening the Night- 

 scented Stock (Mat- 

 thiola bicornis) gives 

 off strong scent that 

 perfumes the garden. 

 No hardy plant ex- 

 cels the Mignonette 

 for delicious fra- 

 grance. It is a plant 

 of which one cannot 

 have too many, es- 

 pecially near the 

 house and for cut- 

 ting. Scatter seeds 

 in the shrubbery bor- 

 ders, in the small 

 beds or narrow bor- 

 ders under the win- 

 dows, and among 

 standard Roses. 

 Both the ordinary and the giant-flowered 



The Ten-Week Stock, a sweet-scented annual. 



Mignonettes are very 

 fragrant, and wafted 

 by the summer breeze 

 their scent flows in 

 through the open 

 windows. The To- 

 bacco Plant (Nico- 

 tiana affinis) is 

 another night-scented 

 annual that must on 

 no account be over- 

 looked. It grows 

 about 3 feet high. 

 and has deliciously 

 fragrant white 

 flowers that open in 

 the evening. Within 

 recent years numer- 

 ous coloured varieties 

 have been raised, 

 these being sold as 

 affinis hybrids. The 

 colours include shades 

 of red and pink. A 

 bed or border of the 

 Tobacco Plant with 

 an edging of the 

 white-flowered Nycterinia capensis, which has 



White and Yellow Tree Lupins and White Pinks. 



