PROSERPINA. 



STUDIES or WAYSIDE FLOWERS, 



WHILE THE AIR WAS YET PURE 



AMONG THE ALPS, AND IN THE SCOTLAND AND 

 ENGLAND WHICH M7 FATHER KNEW. 



BY 



JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D., 



HONORARY STUDENT OP CHRIST CHURCH, AND BLADE PROFESSOR OP PINE ART. 



"Oh Proserpina ! 



For the flowers now, which frighted, thou let'st 

 From Dis's waggon." 



VOLUME I. 



NEW YORK : 



JOHN WILEY & SONS, 

 15 ASTOR PLACE. 



1886. 



