Chap. XIII. 
another race, equally beautiful in its way, has 
come to take their places, to paint the woods and 
hedgerows and gardens with masses of gay colours, 
and to perfume the air with the fragrance of its 
blossoms. Wild roses are now in full flower. The 
hedges, hanks, and uncultivated land are covered 
with their white blooms. A new species of Weigela 
is growing wild everywhere, and is also in flower. 
In the end of May and in June Deutzia scabra and 
Styrax japonica are very beautiful. They abound 
on every hill-side, in the hedges, and on the hanks 
of streams. Later in the year the Styrax pro- 
duces galls, from which a reddish dye is prepared. 
Honeysuckles, too ( Caprifolium japonicum\ are 
abundant, and their flowers, with those of the wild 
rose, fill the air with delicious perfume. 
In gardens, herbaceous peonies are out ; several 
beautiful kinds of pinks, quite different from the 
spring sorts, are also in bloom, and there is a race 
of summer chrysanthemums which come in at this 
time, and which render the gardens extremely 
gay. In addition to these, I noted two fine new 
Weigelas, some clematises, irises, Spircea Reeves- 
ictna , and the white Banksian rose. It is a common 
remark amongst foreigners that flowers are mostly 
scentless in Japan, and some have gone so far as 
to attribute this to the nature of the soil of the 
country. That this is not so will he apparent from 
the notices of the different fragrant plants above- 
mentioned. Honeysuckles, roses (particularly the 
white Banksian), gardenias, peonies, tuberoses, and 
