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course ought to be awake to every thing that the use 

 of flowers in season or out of season may by possibi- 

 lity command, take advantage of them ? At this 

 dreamy season they may rouse the imagination, and 

 come^in not inappropriately; for as an old author 

 says 



" I cannot tell how others fancies stand, 



But I rejoice sometimes to take in hand, 



The simile of that I love." 



So for the nonce be it so in dreamy luxuriance we 

 may rest awhile, canopied in honeysuckle bowers, 

 odours from white clover fields saturating the air 

 around us, as gleainy lights break in upon the sighing 

 foliage surrounding our retreat, while in imagination 

 " the silvery mist" leads us to lily-covered lakes em- 

 bosomed in mountains ; or the light zephyr wafts us 

 deep into rocky solitudes, where by the side of bogs 

 and splashing mountain streams, as at Can Coed by 

 the young Severn's rapid stream, near Llanidloes, we 

 have in past happy excursions gathered the fair Globe- 

 flower (Trollius Europeans), in companionship with 

 the Yellow Kingspear (Narthecium ossifrayum} , the 

 blue Pinguicula, Scutellaria minor, and the lowly 

 drooping but silvery glistening Hypericim elodes. To 

 such an inspiring spot, to the lofty Brithen's rocky 

 flanks carpeted with the rich purple spikes of Veronica 

 Jiybrida, or upon the Glyder's awful misty peaks 

 brightened with the fugacious - petalled Cambrian 

 Poppy, thankful should we be to some light zephyr to 

 waft us again with a return ticket ! For in actual 

 exploration although the botanist may ivander like an 

 "amorous bee," he can only take fanciful flights, and 

 eminences where rare plants grow must be visited and 



