November, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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drained soil is necessary for this also, its 
native land being Southern France and 
the Mediterranean region, on chalk hills 
near the sea. It will live out of doors al¬ 
most anywhere if such a soil is given it 
and winter protection provided — for it is 
classed among the “nearly hardy” shrubs. 
A heavy soil, however, and much moisture 
during the winter will work havoc with it, 
even though it is protected. 
Spice pinks —Dianthus plumarius — must 
have their space. There is a dwarf strain 
that comes into bloom two weeks ahead of 
the older variety, by means of which the 
season of this delicious clove-scented 
flower may be lengthened greatly. Plant 
the old kind in either single or double 
strain at the rear of a border, with the 
dwarf as an edging. 
The bulbs of tuberoses may be scat¬ 
tered everywhere throughout the borders 
or beds of a scented garden, making the 
first planting as soon as the ground warms 
up — about the middle of May in the lati¬ 
tude of New York. Early outdoor flowers 
of this richly fragrant plant are secured 
by an early start indoors or in a hotbed, 
and a succession may be kept up all sum¬ 
mer by successive indoor and later out¬ 
door plantings, allowing a fortnight to 
elapse between each. Begin in March and 
keep it up until the end of July; then there 
will always be tuberoses in bloom. 
Mignonette is one of the plants that keeps 
its fragrance to itself rather than pouring 
it out for the enjoyment of the passer-by; 
yet it always seems that a little corner of 
mignonette ought to provide sprays for 
cutting, if nothing more. It grows easily 
from seed, and successive sowings will 
keep up the bloom all summer if you care 
enough for it to want it so long. There are 
some much better varieties now than the 
old-fashioned sort, as far as flower heads 
go. “Defiance” is really lovely, and then 
there is “Parson's White" that is as sweet 
as the older kind and has the advantage of 
attractive, pure-white flowers. 
The tuberose-flowered tobacco shall 
close the list — not that there are not many 
more fragrant flowers, but that here are 
as many as any garden will be able to con¬ 
tain without a jumble — and more than 
ought to go in any but a large garden. 
This tobacco, or Nicotiana affiis, is a con¬ 
stant-blooming annual, white flowered and 
loose in habit, and excellent for back¬ 
ground massing, as well as for cutting. 
A border of it in combination with 
evening-scented stock — which I simply 
must add, unattractive though its flowers 
are, for its odor is so entrancing when 
night falls—will indeed form as satisfac¬ 
tory a scented garden if time and space re¬ 
strict the scheme to annuals as one could 
wish to have. 
The uses of the plants of the scented 
garden are all to the one end of furnishing 
fragrance, save the rosemary. This is a 
delectable addition to sweet pickles, and is 
also used with reserve as a condiment in 
soups and dressings, and sometimes to im- 
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