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HO USE & GARDEN 
The perfume garden is restful and sweet loith the scent of grass pinks and other fragrant blossoms 
THE GARDEN OF SWEET PERFUMES 
We Plan Our Gardens for Color and Form Harmony — Why 
Not Consider Perfume as a Leading Factor? 
KATE V. SAINT MAUR 
I T is unfortunate that the Pilgrims ar¬ 
rived in America during a period of 
religious persecution which caused any 
gratification of taste to be looked upon as 
a beguilement of Satan. Even to this day 
The day-lily should be included because 
of its perfume, though its form is not 
prepossessing 
our gardens bear evidence of Puritanical 
repression of anything so pleasing to the 
senses as perfume, for though they are 
glorious in color now, they lack the en¬ 
chantment of fragrance which makes the 
old established gardens of Europe so allur¬ 
ing. Yet plant odors are so delicately in¬ 
discernible and suggest such a wholesome 
fragrance that there is good reason for in¬ 
troducing perfume plants into the garden, 
and not a single objection, since it means 
only a few packets of seed and a little 
thought in the selection of sorts. 
Scented Shrubs and Vines 
In the distant corners you may use such 
shrubs as white and purple lilac, syringa, 
strawberry shrub, flowering currant and 
Adam's needle, which throws op a branch¬ 
ing flower stalk 4' or 5' high bearing hun¬ 
dreds of creamy white, fragrant blossoms. 
These four large shrubs bloom in succession 
and provide perfume from early spring un¬ 
til late in August. The first three are per¬ 
fectly hardy, but Adam's needle or, to give 
its true name, hardy yucca, must have some 
light protection during northern winters. 
Such vines as honeysuckle, jessamine, 
clematis, mignonette vine and moonflower 
should be planted around porches and per¬ 
golas, to ensure bedrooms receiving a bene¬ 
diction of fragrance on cloudy days and 
after the shades of evening close in, for 
their perfume is always stronger then than 
during the hours of bright sunlight. 
The white day-lily grows about 2' or 3' 
Clematis paniculata, one of our best fall 
flowering vines, delights the senses of 
sight and scent 
