CHAPTER VIII 
SWEET-SCENTED ANNUALS 
Except among the members of one large family 
of plants, the Cruciferce, it is not usual to find 
much fragrance among annuals, but in this 
family they are frequent. Wallflowers, Stocks, 
and Rockets are among the sweetest of our 
garden plants ; and though not actually in- 
cluded in the same botanical Order, but follow- 
ing it immediately, there is Mignonette, the 
sweetest of the sweet, and of all garden plants 
the one that gives off its scent the most freely 
in hot sunshine. A bed of Wallflowers also 
gives off its delicious scent when the sun is 
shining, but others of the family reserve their 
best sweetness for the evening hours. Such 
are the Stocks and the Rockets, and especially 
that little plant, Matthiola bicornis (the Night- 
scented Stock), which should be freely sown 
in any place near garden paths. The dull- 
coloured, drooping flowers and insignificant 
leaves are scarcely noticeable in the daytime, 
when the whole plant seems to be in a state 
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