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out fragrance. It is when we find so lovely a flower scentless 
that we realise how great a charm that of perfume is, and how 
much we are appealed to through fragrance. In fact, in 
delight of sweetness of smell we are veritable bees and butter- 
flies. 
Many flowers use the means of casting out fragrance to 
inform the insects of their whereabouts; and it has been 
observed, as in the case of the meadow-sweet, that those that 
are sufficiently showy to attract the bee’s eye seldom appeal 
as well to his sense of smell. 
STEEPLE-BUSH. HARDHACK. 
Spirea tomentosa. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Rose. Peach-blow pink. Scentless. New England southward. Sumter. 
Flowers: small; thickly clustered in a pyramidal spike. Ca/yx: of five se- 
pals. Corolla: of five, rosaceous petals. Stamens: numerous. Pfisti/s : five to 
eight. Leaves: alternate; small; ovate; toothed and downy underneath. 
Stem : erect ; slender ; downy. 
We are impressed by the steeple-bush very much as we are 
by the dainty beauty of the meadow-sweet. Its fleecy spikes 
lighten the low grounds, and we would miss them sorely from 
the bunch of late summer flowers that we gather shortly before 
the great family of composites invades the fields. According 
to the custom of perennial herbs, these plants die down to the 
ground every year at the approach of frost. The live stem 
with its buds hovers near the root and sends up the young 
shoots of the next year. 
SMALLER FORGET=ME-NOT. 
Myosotes léxa. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Borage. Pale blue. Scentless. From the north to Virginia May-July. 
and Tennessee. 
Flowers : small; growing ina raceme. Calyx: five-lobed; hairy. Corolla: 
salver-shaped; five-cleft. Stamens: five; included. /ist#/: one; slender, 
Leaves: alternate ; oblong; sessile; hairy. Stem: leafy ; slender. 
Perhaps the prettiest legend about the little forget-me-not is 
that of the Persians, . 

