CHARACTERISTICS OF ALPINE PLANTS G3 



these the very mainspring of their joy in Hfe. 

 Only there, amid such conditions, are they at their 

 fullest ease ; only there can they smile as we 

 know them capable of smiling. Those wild, stern 

 places of so angry, hard, forbidding circumstance 

 are most obviously their most precious birthright. 

 Be it in winter, be it in summer, be it in storm, 

 or be it in sunshine, these Alpine wilds are their 

 well-loved home — aye, and more than home, their 

 Paradise. 



