THE GARDEN AND THE WILDS 51 



until the evening, and return with baskets which 

 freshen the streets and the jaded passers-by. 



Above the pale and lowly primroses rise, upon 

 their stalks, the darker-coloured cowslips. Now, 

 the cowslip is not nearly so common in Scotland as 

 in England ; partly, perhaps, 

 jg^^to for the want of dry per- 

 manent 

 pasture. 

 Such 

 cowslips, 

 as we 

 have, fre- 

 quently find 

 niches for them- 

 selves in the curi- 

 ous corners of woods. 

 Nor do the Scots cowslips 

 look quite the same as those 

 found growing on the English 

 meadows. The smaller paler flowers of the latter 

 give it a more truly wild look. Here the whole 

 plant is larger, and more like the garden variety. 

 This may be partly accounted for by its 

 woodland haunts, where the struggle for existence 

 is not so keen as in the meadow; or, when 



