October 14, 1905. 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK 
“A flower there is, that grows in meadow ground, 
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AN AMATEUR'S LETTER 
TO AMATEURS. 
By the author of “ The Garden Decorative ,” 
etc., etc. 
X. 
Fragrant Flowers for the Garden. 
many things in this world have 
the charm of fragrance that flowers have. 
It is almost their own monopoly, and it is 
one of their greatest charms, one of their 
daintiest virtues. The flowers that have 
this “ gift of scent have been more written 
of than any others, and they are more 
especially the flowers that we associate 
with the old-fashioned gardens of England. 
Indeed, the famous old Elizabethan and 
even the writers of an earlier time set 
wonderful value on the perfume of the 
flowers. We at the present time have lost 
something of this old love of fragrance. We 
are growing many varieties of plants nowa¬ 
days that have been developed and hybri¬ 
dised, so that other qualities, such as size 
colour, form, have been insisted on rather 
than their fragrance. Many a Rose of to-day 
is very beautiful, but it has no charm of 
sweet scent. 
Let us not carry this neglect too far; let 
us still, like the old flower-lovers of a 
younger world, cherish the flowers that 
yield us perfume. If our garden is a large 
one there will be a great charm in setting 
aside some little poition of it and making of 
it—-that particular portion—a garden of 
sweet scents. Or, if our garden be small, 
then amid the other flowers let us introduce 
a goodly number that shall yield us 
fragrance. 
It would be a good plan, in the small 
garden at any rate, to make a point of grow¬ 
ing only those Roses that are sweetly scented, 
and some of our most valuable and beautiful 
Roses are scented. Caroline Testout and 
Viscountess Folkestone have all the sweet¬ 
ness of the wild Hedge-rose. That fine 
variety Ben Cant has great fragrance; the 
grand old General Jacqueminot is very 
sweetly scented ; and so, too, is a dainty and 
but little known Rose called Madame Henri 
Berger, and also Mrs. Edward Mawley, and, 
. of course, there are many others. 
In former times there were no flowers 
more treasured for the sweetness of their 
scent than the Carnations and Gilliflowers, 
but many of our modern productions are 
altogether scentless. Take, for instance, the 
triumphs of to-day. Not one of the entirely 
yellow Carnations, beautiful as they are, has 
the suspicion of perfume, so, though we grow 
if for its beauty, let us see to it that we have 
a full quota of those varieties that do yield 
us scent; happily, it is not difficult to make 
a really good selection even if many of them 
are of long standing. Cantab (a rich bright 
red), Uriah Pike (a glowing crimson), Mrs. 
Nicholson (the best of all the deep rose-pink 
varieties), the old Clove (crimson), and the 
Blush Clove, Edith Leadenham (white), Gloire 
de Nancy (also white), Ethel Crocker, and 
Madeline Reynolds, (both pink), and the fine 
crimson Isinglass are all to be numbered 
among the fragrant varieties ; and there are 
others besides. I always look upon the Rose 
and the Carnation and the Sweet Pea as among 
the most desirable of all the sweet-smelling 
flowers because of their brilliant colouring. 
In making what I have called a garden of 
sweet scents the chief difficulty lies in getting 
a sufficiency of really bright and glowing 
colour, as many of the sweet-smelling flowers 
would seem to have been given their fragrance 
in lieu of brilliancy of tone as an efficient 
allurement to bees and insects of other kinds 
to visit them. Therefore we will give th^se 
generous space ; and bright, glowingly bright 
is the old sweet Bergamot. It is one of the 
best of all border plants for a somewhat 
moist and even partially shaded position, 
and it remains in flower over a long period 
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during the summer months. It is a grand 
addition to the garden of sweet scents. 
Some few of the Irises are surprisingly 
fragrant, and among these I would call 
attention to I. dalmatica and I. stylosa, the 
first pale lavender, the second a delicate 
blue—-one of the few blue flowers that yield 
sweet scent. W3 may well have for edging 
plants as many as we can of the fragrant 
white or coloured Pinks, few flowers as these 
so powerfully scent the air about them. I 
could tell of an old-fashioned garden that 
had all its long straight walks edged with 
white Pinks, and at no time was the beautiful 
old garden more beautiful and more enchant* 
ing than when the Pinks were all in blossom. 
Those who see and admire and read the 
praises of the large-flowered Mrs. Sinkins 
may imagine that long edges of these will 
have greater beauty than the smaller and 
older white Pinks; but not so ; the heavier 
flower of to-day is not nearly so effective 
and grandly upstanding as the flower of 
yes‘erday for such a purpose. The present 
is just the time when these edgings of Pinks 
maybe established. No time should be lost, 
and such a variety as Dianthus fragrans is 
greatly to be recommended. 
Wallflowers will be an important feature 
during the late spring in this garden of 
sweet scents, both for colour and fragrance, 
and it goes without the saying we will give 
ready admittance to the favourite flower of 
ill-fated Marie Antoinette, Sweet Rocket. 
The double varieties are of far longer 
endurance than the single, and both white 
and purple kinds should be secured Grand 
bits of colour, too, and much perfume shall 
the different kinds of Stocks yield us, annual, 
biennial and perennial, and let us see to it 
that in this portion of the garden at any 
rate we grow those that are brighest in colour. 
Such plants as Thymus Serpyllum coccineus 
make wonderfully effective low masses of 
bright purple for a dry, sunny spot, while 
Primroses and Sweet Violets shall not be 
forgotten. Some varieties of herbaceous 
Phlox are delicately fragrant, and of course 
they are grandly decorative as to colour. 
We need variety of height in our garden of 
sweet scents, so behind our lower-growing 
subjects, on old tree stumps, may be grown 
the wild sweet Honeysuckle, Clematis Flam- 
mula, and Jessamine. And with these colour¬ 
giving flowers we may well add a go Mly quan¬ 
tity of the more typical sweet smelling plants, 
Mignonette and Lavender, Southernwood 
and Rosemary that in old days was known by 
the yet sweeter sounding name of Rose- 
marine, the night-scented Stock and Nico- 
tiana affinis. The sweet-scented Verbena in 
most districts may be accounted a hardy 
