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page 292, and I have named it from these lines 
from The Garden that I Love : — 
“A running ribbon of perfumed snow 
Which the sun is melting rapidly.” 
At sundown the beautiful white Day Lily opens 
and gives forth all night an overwhelming sweetness ; 
I have never seen night moths visiting it, though I 
know they must, since a few seed capsules always 
form. In the border stand — 
“ Clumps of sunny Phlox 
That shine at dusk, and grow more deeply sweet.” 
These, with white Petunias, are almost unbearably 
cloying in their heavy odor. It is a curious fact that 
some of these night-scented flowers are positively 
offensive in the daytime ; try your Nicotiana affinis 
next midday — it outpours honeyed sweetness at 
night, but you will be glad it withholds its perfume 
by day. The plants of Nicotiana were first intro- 
duced to England for their beauty, sweet scent, and 
medicinal qualities, not to furnish smoke. Parkin- 
son in 1629 writes of Tobacco, <c With us it is cher- 
ished for medicinal qualities as for the beauty of its 
flowers,” and Gerarde, in 1633, after telling of the 
beauty, etc., says that the dried leaves are “ taken in 
a pipe, set on fire, the smoke suckt into the stomach, 
and thrust forth at the noshtrils.” 
Snake-root; sometimes called Black Cohosh ( Cimi - 
cifuga racemosa ), is one of the most stately wild 
flowers, and a noble addition to the garden. A 
picture of a single plant gives little impression of its 
