COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



est expansion at nightfall. It is a charming lax trailer, 

 drooping its long stems, starred with great white fragrant 

 blooms, most gracefully over steep banks or rocks. 0. 

 marginata and 0. speciosa are two other lovely species 

 with white flowers gradually changing to pink as they 

 mature. The first sends forth a strong, magnolia-like 

 fragrance at night, and is seldom taller than twelve inches. 

 The other is of somewhat greater height and of shrubby 

 growth. It is a very rampant spreader so should not be 

 put where it will overpower choicer things. The yellow 

 Oenotheras should have a place both in the day and in the 

 night garden. 0. fruticosa and its varieties are splendid 

 hardy plants bearing many primrose blossoms over a long 

 period at midsummer. I have a handsome tall Evening 

 Primrose called Afterglow, one of the "mutant" forms of 

 Lamarckiana, that is one of the finest plants in the garden, 

 opening its great yellow blossoms in quick succession 

 throughout the greater part of the summer and shedding a 

 fine fragrance at night. 



Nowadays perfume does not bestow upon the flower 

 possessing it the preeminence that it once did. The nose of 

 humanity has become blunted, grown dull to those perfumes 

 that come to it as gifts. We are far less sensitive to the 

 influence of the perfume of flowers than were our forefathers. 

 In early horticultural books one reads constantly that this 

 or that simple flower "rejoyceth the heart of man" or "com- 

 forteth his spirits" by its sweet breath. This quality was 

 always mentioned and made much of if it were present, but 

 I remember, a few years ago, when compiling a list of 

 fragrant flowers, going through countless books and cata- 



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