"Oddly enough, modern gardens have become more and more scentless. Bigger, hardier, more beed flowers are the goal of the hybridizers, and while the new plants are often superior in many ways to old favorites, they are rarely more fragrant. Scent is a ghost you find in old gardens, or in plantings of old-fashioned varieties. It is also found aplenty in gardens for the blind, who are particularly attuned to scent, and in herb beds where the subtle scents of foliage are treasured."