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RE: Boronia megastigma

I too am Boronia challenged. So sad. I can get a hint of a whiff when I
first come in range
of it and then its gone. According to Wriggley and Fagg's bookon scented
autralian plants,
25% of people can't smell it. In my family, only Dad can smell it and
he's really a pill when 
we have one in flower. David's lucky on two counts 'cause they are
difficult to grow. Let us
know if it survives 'til another flowering!

Samantha 

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>From: 	Tim Dutton[SMTP:timdut@freemail.co.nz]
>Sent: 	Sunday, April 13, 1997 4:36
>To: 	dave-poole@ilsham.demon.co.uk; Medit-Plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: 	Boronia megastigma
>
>At 12:58 AM 13/04/97 GMT, David Poole wrote:
>
>>A recently acquired plant of the deliciously scented, brown Boronia -
>>Boronia megastigma has just been placed at the base of a sunny wall.
>>The past few days of warm sunny weather have encouraged its flowers to
>>open and despite the evening chill, the spicily citrus fragrance was
>>especially noticeable as I came indoors from the garden.
>>
>You are a lucky man David. Ever since I got interested in gardening, people
>have raved on about the scent of this Boronia and I have planted them in two
>gardens now. The problem is, I cannot smell it at all. I can stuff the
>flowers up my nose, but with all the will in the world cannot smell anything
>at all! As far as I know, there are no other scented plants that I am unable
>to smell, so I am sorry, I just don't believe Boronia megastigma has any
>scent, in spite of what everyone says :-)
>Tim Dutton		timdut@freemail.co.nz
>"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
>
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