MY 



HUNDRED SWISS FLOWERS. 



INTBODUCTOBY. 



Nature never did betray 

 The heart that loved her. 'Tis her privilege, 

 Through all the years of this ovir life to lead 



From joy to joy. 



Word-twort/i. 



Among the various attractions of Switzerland that of its 

 flowers is not the least. Even those who care for little 

 but peaks, cols, and glaciers, whose preparations consist in 

 trying their rope and sharpening their ice-axe hefore start- 

 ing for the mountains, can scarcely fail to be struck with 

 the vivid patches of colour which they will find above the 

 highest range of tree-life. There one may see those bril- 

 liant masses of small flowers which, thanks to the pro- 

 tecting snow of past months, present a triumphant contrast 

 to the pines, whose broken, bleached branches show how 



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