96 ODORS OF VEGETATION. 



indeed seems niggardly of her gifts to the honey-sipping 

 insects, for the flowers of this season are as destitute of 

 sweetness as of fragrance. The charms of autumn are 

 chiefly for the eye, of tinted woods and gorgeous flow- 

 ers, that attract us more by their glowing profusion than 

 by any particular beauty as individual objects. 



