WILD FLOWERS OF 

 SCOTLAND 



THE FLOWERS OF SPRING 



THE daisy never dies. The eye of the winter 

 as of the summer day, it is bellis perennis, 

 in a double sense : a thing of beauty, throughout 

 the year, and throughout the years. 



So early do some plants flower, that they seem 

 to belong as much to the past as to the coming 

 season. Among such is the furze or whin. On 

 any open winter day it may be traced, by its 

 cocoanut scent, to where it lights up the leeside of 

 turf dyke, or wood strip with its dark yellow 

 blossoms. But for the bareness of the willow, 

 which has not yet hung out a single catkin, the 

 stillness of the woods, broken only by the drowsy 



