''Call the vales, and bid them hither cast 



Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues." Milton's Lycidas. 



FLORA OF THE 

 WORDSWORTH COUNTRY. 



The Flora of the Wordsworth Country is one of 

 unusual interest, not only to the Botanist but to the ever- 

 increasing number of visitors who flock in from the 

 crowded cities of our land, because it brings us into close 

 communion with Nature's grandeur, with which we are so 

 richly, endowed ; it also brings us into closer fellowship 

 with those great poets and writers of our present century 

 who have lived and died, and whose bodies rest among these 

 everlasting hills ; but their works still live, and how much 

 we cherish them ! And well may we love our mountains, 

 for in their far recesses and sheltered glens, where the 

 silence is only broken by the rush of torrents, have been 

 spent our happiest moments. And it is true that Nature 



"Can so inform 



The mind that is within us, so impress 

 With quietness and beauty, and so feed 

 With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 

 Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, 

 Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 



The dreary intercourse of this our daily life 

 Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb 

 Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold 



Shall e'er prevail against us, or disti 

 Our cheerful faith, th 

 Is full of blessings." 



Yes ; we cannot but feel impressed with the magnificent 

 blending of foliage now the summer fades away ; and 

 here, in our valleys, where the trees retain their rich 



