. Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant leaves, interesting associations gathered from many sources, with notes on their history and utility . may be springing from the same spot. Flowers sweetat night and scentless in the day; flowers of evil odour atone hour and fragrant at another; plants sweet in breath ofblossom, but deadly in leaf and sap; Lilies sweet as they arefair, and Lilies that must not be let into the house; bushesin which all that is delightful in odour permeates to everyMarch-daring bud, and so through all the lovely host. TheGrant Aliens of the day, who tell us how the Dandelions
. Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant leaves, interesting associations gathered from many sources, with notes on their history and utility . may be springing from the same spot. Flowers sweetat night and scentless in the day; flowers of evil odour atone hour and fragrant at another; plants sweet in breath ofblossom, but deadly in leaf and sap; Lilies sweet as they arefair, and Lilies that must not be let into the house; bushesin which all that is delightful in odour permeates to everyMarch-daring bud, and so through all the lovely host. TheGrant Aliens of the day, who tell us how the Dandelionsprung from the Primrose some millions of years ago, wouldexplain all these things to us, or put long names to them,—what Sir Richard Owen used to call conjectural biology;but we who love our flowers need not care where they leavethe question, for to us is given this precious fragrance,happily almost without effort. Every fertile country has its fragrant flowers and trees;alpine meadows Avith Orchids and mountain Violets; thePrimrose-scented woods; Honeysuckle-wreathed and May-frosted hedgerows of Britain; the Cedars of India and of. X FLORA ODORATA the mountains of Asia Minor, mth Lebanon; trees of thesame stately order, perhaps still more fragrant in the warmerPacific breezes of the Eocky Mountains and Oregon, wherethe many great Pines spring from a carpet of fragrant ever-greens, and a thousand flowers which fade away after theirbloom, and rest in the heat, while the trees overhead distilfor ever grateful odour in the sunny air. Myrtle, Eosemary,and Lavender, and all the aromatic bushes and herbs clothingthe little capes that jut into the great sea which washes theshores of Greece, Italy, Sicily, and Corsica j garden islandsscattered through vast Pacific seas, as stars are scattered inthe heavens; enormous tropical forests, little known to man,and from which he gathers here and there the treasures forour orchid- and greenhouses ; great island conservatories likeJava and Cey
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