Is it not beautiful to think that the bright pleasant colours we
love so much in flowers, are not only ornamental, but that they
are useful and doing their part in keeping up healthy life in our
world?
Neither must we forget what sweet scents can do. Have you never
noticed the delicious smell which comes from beds of mignonette,
thyme, rosemary, mint, or sweet alyssum, from the small hidden
bunches of laurustinus blossom, or from the tiny flowers of the
privet? These plants have found another way of attracting the
insects; they have no need of bright colours, for their scent is
quite as true and certain a guide. You will be surprised if you
once begin to count them up, how many white and dull or dark-
looking flowers are sweet-scented, while gaudy flowers, such as
tulip, foxglove and hollyhock, have little or no scent. And
then, just as in the world we find some people who have
everything to attract others to them, beauty and gentleness,
cleverness, kindliness, and loving sympathy, so we find some
flowers, like the beautiful lily, the lovely rose, and the
delicate hyacinth, which have colour and scent and graceful
shapes all combined.
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