Nor is this mixture unpleasant; for the smell of citronella is the fragrance of verbena from Shropshire gardens.

he had ever beheld; not brilliant and shining, jewel-like, in the sun, like the scarlet verbena of the plains, or some yellow flower, but pale and misty, the petals being of a dim greenish cream-colour, with a large blue circle in the centre; and the blue, too, was misty like the blue haze in the distance on a summer day.

The young, tender leaves scent almost as sweetly as the verbena in the greenhouse.