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pink and lilac. It is the Night-scented Stock, and 
lavishly through the still night it pours forth its 
ineffable fragrance. A single plant, thirty feet from 
an open window, will waft its perfume into the 
room. This white Stock was a favorite flower of 
Marie Antoinette, under its French name the Juli- 
enne. “ Night Violets,” is its appropriate German 
name. Hesperis ! the name shows its habit. Dame’s 
Rocket is our title for this cheerful old favorite of 
May, which shines in such snowy beauty at night, 
and throws forth such a compelling fragrance. It is 
rarely found in our gardens, but I have seen it grow- 
ing wild by the roadside in secluded spots ; not in 
ample sheets of growth like Bouncing Bet, which 
we at first glance thought it was ; it is a shyer stray, 
blossoming earlier than comely Betsey. 
The old-fashioned single, or slightly double, coun- 
try Pink, known as Snow Pink or Star Pink, was 
often used as an edging for small borders, and its blu- 
ish green, almost gray, foliage was quaint in effect and 
beautiful in the moonlight. When seen at night, 
the reason for the folk-name is evident. Last sum- 
mer, on a heavily clouded night in June, in a cottage 
garden at West Hampton, borders of this Snow Pink 
shone out of the darkness with a phosphorescent 
light, like hoar-frost, on every grassy leaf ; while the 
hundreds of pale pink blossoms seemed softly shin- 
ing stars. It was a curious effect, almost wintry, 
even in midsummer. The scent was wafted down 
the garden path, and along the country road, like a 
concentrated essence, rather than a fleeting breath 
of flowers. One of these cottage borders is shown on 
