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tristis, or night-flowering stock, which, when 

 you see it first open, you will wonder why I, 

 who profess to grow showy flowers only, should 

 have sent it, as its small, dirty looking blossom 

 will not appear to have the least merit. You 

 will smell it; and if it should happen to be 

 morning when you do so, you will feel tempted 

 to root it out as being both ugly and scentless ; 

 but have patience till the evening, and you will 

 find its perfume as singular as it is delicious. It 

 is one of the freest flowering plants I know, 

 and will not leave off till killed by the frosts ; 

 and I think the more blossoms you gather, the 

 more it produces. 



This is not the only flower which emits no 

 odour during the daytime, though it is the com- 

 monest of this description, and the sweetest, 

 excepting always the pretty Erinus lychnidea, 

 the scent of which resembles vanilla. 



