November, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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not scent the air around them, as a single plant of day lily will do; 
and this makes a great difference in selecting for a scented garden. 
Following the hyacinths, lilacs are almost the only thing to fill 
the interval of May before the herbaceous blooms of June are 
open, although iris in suf¬ 
ficient quantity may be 
depended upon to provide 
some sweetness. Iris are 
among the delicate-scent¬ 
ed flowers, however, and 
unless there is room to 
have many, 
will not be 
sweetened by 
very delicacy 
are massed in 
the garden 
appreciably 
them. Their 
when they 
sufficient 
numbers to be perceptible 
makes them one of the 
most delightful of the 
scented garden’s possibili¬ 
ties ; but where space is 
limited they will take up 
so much that there will 
not be enough left for the 
other things which the 
other seasons require. 
Roses of the old-fash¬ 
ioned kind are the roses 
for fragranc e — the 
damask rose, or what is 
called the cabbage, or Provence, rose — in either pink or white 
form. Usually red roses are sweeter than the pink or any other 
color, but in this particular the rule does not hold. It applies 
especially to hybrid teas and the hybrid perpetuals, I have ob¬ 
served ; and, of course, these old-time garden roses are not of this 
By cutting out the dwarf strain of spice pinks, 
their close-scented flower may be lengthened 
for a time 
type. Rugosa roses are likewise very fragrant; a single bush per¬ 
fumes to a marked degree the air all around it. Then there are 
the sweetbriars, which make effective trellis plants, and scent the 
air wonderfully when thus raised up in the midst of a garden. 
“Meg Merrilies” is one of 
the best hybrids of these, 
while "Refulgence’’ is a 
really lovely rose, with 
flowers partially doubled 
and three inches across. 
Both are crimson, and the 
foliage of the former is 
large and robust. 
On the heels of the 
roses come the first of the 
day lilies — Hemerocallis 
Hava — which should be 
planted in masses, for the 
odor of this is one of the 
most delicious the garden 
will know. Day lilies are 
not particular about soil, 
and will usually thrive 
anywhere, as the old 
clumps in old dooryards 
bear witness. This early 
flowering variety is fol¬ 
lowed by Hemerocallis 
aurantiaca, and this still 
later by H. Tliunbergii,' 
which carries the bloom up to the end of July. So the phloxes 
have begun before the day lilies leave off—and a combination of 
the white and gold of phlox, “Mrs. Jenkins’’ and “Miss Lingard” 
and “Jeanne d’Arc,’’ with the three varieties of lilies, is as lovely 
to the eye as the fragrance of the two is to the nose. 
Mignonette rather keeps its fragrance to itself. 
It grows readily from seed and will bloom 
all summer 
imi 
Nicoliana affinis, a constant blooming annual, is excellent for background massing and combined with the evening-scented stock will form as satisfactory a scented garden if 
lime and space restrict the scheme to annuals 
