6 BOOK OF THE SCENTED GARDEN 
FRAGRANT GARDEN FLOWERS 
‘‘Of their sweet deaths, are sweeter odours made.” 
‘<The garden borders bear for us odours as precious as 
any breath of tropic Orchid: from the Lily of the Valley 
to the Carnation—this last being perhaps the most 
grateful odour of all the flowering host in our garden 
land. Among these borders one meets with things 
sweeter than words may tell of—Woodruff, Balm, 
Pinks, Violets, garden Primroses, Polyanthus, day and 
other Lilies, early Iris, Narcissus, evening Primroses, 
Mezereon Bush, Wallflower, and Pansies, delicate in 
their sweetness. . . . Even our ugly walls may be 
sweet gardens with Magnolia, Honeysuckle, Clematis, 
Sweet Verbena, and the delightful old Jasmine, still 
clothing many a house in London. Most precious of all, 
however, are the noble climbing Tea Roses raised in 
our own time, mostly in France within the past forty 
years or so. Among the abortions of this century these 
are a real gain—the loveliest flowers ever raised by man. 
Noble in form and colour, and scented as delicately as 
a June morn in alpine pastures, with these most precious 
of garden Roses we could cover all the ugly walls in 
England and Ireland, and Heaven knows there are many 
in want of a veil.”—From Introduction to ‘* Sweet Scented 
Flowers and Fragrant Leaves,” by Donald M*‘Donald, pp. 
Xl. and Xiv. 
‘Through the open windows also, at almost any time 
of the year, pours the delicious scent of leaf and flower 
—of Winter Sweet, Violets, or Sweet Peas; of Stocks, 
or Mignonette; of Wallflowers, or Roses. Just to name 
a few of the plants whose scent fills the rooms, what 
glories are thereby called up—Honeysuckle and Jasmine, 
Lily of the Valley, Lilac and Narcissus, Carnation, Syringa 
and Heliotrope, Thyme, Bergamot, and Aloysia! ‘These, 
and a hundred other fragrances mingled together in 
