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most striking of our strictly alpine plants, 

 but is seldom seen by the ordinary summer 

 tourist, as it finishes its course long before 

 he arrives. The same may be said of the 

 splendid Lapland azalea, which I do not 

 remember to have found on Mount Lafay- 

 ette, it is true, but which is to be seen in 

 all its glory upon the Mount Washington 

 range, in middle or late June ; so early that 

 one may have to travel over snow-banks to 

 reach it. The two flowers oftenest noticed 

 by the chance comer to these parts are 

 the Greenland sand wort (the "mountain 

 daisy " !) and the pretty geum, with its hand- 

 some crinkled leaves and its bright yellow 

 blossoms, like buttercups. 



My sketch will hardly fulfill the promise 

 of its title; for our June in Franconia in- 

 cluded a thousand things of which I have 

 left myself no room to speak : strolls in the 

 Landaff Valley and to Sugar Hill ; a walk 

 to Mount Agassiz ; numerous visits by the 

 way, and in uncertain weather to Bald 

 Mountain ; several jaunts to Lonesome Lake ; 

 and wanderings here and there in the path- 

 less valley woods. We were none of us of 

 that unhappy class who cannot enjoy doing 

 the same thing twice. 



