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guess "Coreopsis" or to wonder which is meant 

 — "Petunia or Morning Glory?" Just as it 

 is one's obvious duty to know the names of 

 one's friends, just so is it one's duty to acquaint 

 himself with the names of the plants in his gar- 

 den, true friends they should be! Even those 

 good folk who can tell you that this is a Ge- 

 raniimi, that a Heliotrope, are occasionally in- 

 different to the nomenclature of varieties of a 

 species. A Rose might smell as sweet by any 

 other name but its own name has so become as- 

 sociated with its fragrance that even old Omar 

 could not have imagined any Board of Re- 

 vision willing to rename this lovely blossom. 

 However, it is not amiss to remember — espe- 

 cially when this June time brings us to the 

 threshold of the "Month of the Rose"— that 

 some Roses are more fragrant than others. 

 Do you, gentle reader, know which ones? 

 Does not the fragrance of the Tea Rose sug- 

 gest the perfmne of olden times, that of the 

 Yellow Rose the perfume of our grandmother's 

 gardens and have not the American Beauty 

 Rose and the La France Rose each exquisite 

 perfumes as peculiarly their own as the per- 

 fume of the red Roses of Samarkand? Ought 



