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Galliara Padlock Potosi Jand, and apparently in Cornwall, as beginning to charm in March, and as spent after July, Th laurel flower for March, violets, wall-lorners, and apple-bloom for April; lilac, stooks, etc., for May; mignon nette, beans, roses and hay for Juno; honeysuckle and the lime-tree for July such is his list. Now along the Undorcliff in the Isle of Wight, and in Sussex and some other southern counties, the primrose, surely not wholly a scentless flower, is often found in sheots at the end of January, and sweet violets generally blow earlier than April; while in. most gardens in the dear old country, summer flowers and sweet summer odours linger on far into the autumn, So that thin Calendar must be amended; and England will be found to be more lastingly fragrant than some suppose.
The subject, however, has suggested to my mind the remembrance that China too has materials for a calendar of odorous flowers, It is remarkable how early in the year aweer scents greet us on China's hills and plains; and how widely they are spread over the year. Very soon after the Chinese New Year's Day, in February, the fragrant orchid, the Lan-hua, is brought in from the hills for sale in great quantities, and may be seen and its fragrance noticed in many a Chinese home. Then follow the narcissus and the banksia in March and April; and on the rocky hills, red now with azaleas for hundred of miles, wisteria hangs in festoons. In April also beans are in flower; and these, with the yellow
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