Chap. III.] 



THE GARDEN OF PLANTS. 



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First we think of the flora of France, beautiful exceedingly in 

 many parts, rich and varied beyond description or remembrance 

 We have the France of the blue warm sea, with its lavender- 

 and rosemary-clad hills, Anemones and Narcissi in its Avinter 

 fields, and woods fragrant with Myrtle and aromatic herbs. 



CEDRELA SINENSIS {Xcw Jre,).—GarJiii oj J'lauti. 



Colder and later than the maritime Alps, we have those of Savoy, 

 with a glorious alpine flora ; the Ardennes and the Vosges ; the 

 Alps of Dauphiny ; and the wide area of the Pyrenean slopes and 

 meadows and valleys. And we have the France of the lower hills 

 and plains, with their wild Roses and Harebells, and the flora 

 of the western sea-shores, and of ]>rittany and of Normandy — 



