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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
October 19, 1907. 
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6difopiol. 
“ of tfa Sc»UA 
without green colouring in it can manu¬ 
facture living substances from gases and 
a few mineral elements taken from the 
soil. Not only do plants do that, but 
thev make food for cattle and all other 
living creatures. The odours are, of 
course, of much less importance to the 
plant than the general substance building 
up its own body, but this book is chiefly 
devoted to that particular function of 
flowers and leaves by which various scents 
and odours are manufactured and stored 
to be given off later on in the fulfilling 
of their particular functions. 
When certain of these odours are dis¬ 
tilled or extracted from the plants anc 
then intensified or purified by extractioi 
of water and other matters, they an 
spoken of as essential oils, and some of 
these are capable of killing bacteria, and 
therefore acting as antiseptics. The book 
is one of a series being issued by Mr. 
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 
and like the rest, is priced at 2S. 6d. 
One of the Immortelles 
(Rhodanthe Manglesii maculata). 
The above is the usual or almost uni¬ 
versal name under which this plant is 
catalogued by seedsmen. The correct 
name, however, is Helipterum Manglesii 
maculatum. It is one of the Everlasting 
Flowers, and one of the neatest and 
prettiest. It is only of annual duration, 
practically lives only a few months, mak¬ 
ing its growth, flowering, and ripening its 
seeds. It 'is of Australian origin, and is 
no doubt adapted for the climate there, 
making its growth while the rainy season 
lasts, and ripening its seeds, after which 
the plant is practically independent until 
the rainy season returns again. In this 
country it may be classed as a hardy an¬ 
nual, seeing that it may be sown in the 
open ground any time during April, anc 
merely requires thinning if the seeds were 
sown too thickly. 
The accompanying illustration shone 
not the ordinary form, but a variety that 
has a dark crimson zone surrounding the 
disc which is yellow. The rays which give 
the bright colour to the flower head are of 
various shades of rose or pink. These 
About forty or fifty years ago amateur 
gardeners or lovers of gardens gave more 
attention to sweet smelling flowers and 
fragrant leaves than the people of to-day. 
Many an old-fashioned garden was filled 
with these sweet smelling herbs. Even 
some of the finest modern Roses and Car¬ 
nations have no scent, notwithstanding 
that desirable quality. 
The late Mr. F. W. Burbidge wrote 
‘‘The Book of the Scented Garden,” which 
must, therefore, be amongst his last 
works to be published. In this he deals 
with a great variety of herbs, both com¬ 
mon and uncommon, some of the uncom¬ 
mon ones having got their general noto¬ 
riety in foreign countries where it is pos¬ 
sible for them to grow. He, neverthe¬ 
less, deals with many plants which can be 
and should be grown in every garden of 
any size to-day. In speaking of fragrant 
garden flowers, he quotes the line about 
Roses saying “ Of their sweet deaths, are 
sweeter odours made,” referring to the 
extraction from them of attar of Roses. 
Many of the plants with scented flowers 
are climbers, which may be and are still 
grown in London, so could, of course, 
be grown in most other smoky towns. He 
believed that all pleasing odours were 
harmless and often even beneficial. 
A very interesting chapter is that on the 
green leaf as a chemical laboratory. He 
compares the leaf to an odour-distilling 
chemist. He avers, however, that the 
green leaf does more than the most skilled 
chemist can do, as it can not only change 
such substance as starch into sugar and 
vice versa, but actually builds up all 
these things from dead matter. That, 
of course, is the prerogative of a green 
plant, so that neither animal nor plant 
Rhodanthe Manglesii maculata. [Maclaren and Sons. 
