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year, he need not give it up altogether under the 

 idea that he will see nothing to repay him for his 

 long journey. He will see a great deal. The 

 grand features of the country ; the everlasting 

 hills changing every day and almost every hour, 

 and yet always the same ; the mighty precipices ; 

 the deeply interesting glaciers ; the lovely slopes, 

 rocky or grassy, leading down to blue lakes or 

 green valleys ; the sweet woods and the water- 

 falls all these will be as good to him in Septem- 

 ber as in June. And if he has an eye for plants, 

 and a love for them, with just sufficient botanical 

 knowledge to know something of them, even when 

 their flowers are gone and perhaps even when past 

 their seed-time, I can assure him that in every 

 walk he will find something new, something that 

 he has not seen in England, and something that 

 will interest him at the time, and bring pleasant 

 memories to him in days to come. In his walks 

 he will find the alpenstock a very efficient help 

 in taking up plants, and especially in dislodging 

 them from places a little beyond his reach ; and I 

 can strongly recommend to him, as a pocket 

 companion, The Tourists' Guide to the Flora of 

 the Alps, written in German by Professor Delia- 

 Torre, but translated by Dr Bennett, and sold in 

 London. It is most trustworthy, and its only 

 fault is that it is too concise. It is purposely so, 

 in order to reduce the size ; but rather longer 

 descriptions would be welcome, even at the cost 

 of a slight increase in size. 

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