NIGHT GARDENS. 



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blooming jasmine, are odorless during the day and richly it does not languish, but sends forth a slender stalk not 



fragrant in the night hours. thicker than a man's finger and over six feet in length. 



Of all the glorious bloomers of the night, none equal bearing aloft a load of flowers that exceeds in number 



the yuccas. See them where you will, in the wild those of all its companions of the garden. Three hun- 



FiG. 2. A Hybrid Rose. — Harrison's Yellow X Rosa rugosa, (^See page 66^ }i 



moonlight of the forests, or on the shore of some south- dred buds and flowers can often be counted on one 



ern lagoon, they are always beautiful when in flower. panicle. The blossoms hang like drooping bells during 



But none are finer than the yucca of our northern the day, half shut and showing little vitality, but at 



gardens [Y. filamentosa). When the hot weather comes dusk they begin to breathe forth pungent and peculiar 



