But when the spirit moves you some bright day in early summer 

 when the sun's heat hastens all vegetation forward, drive west through 

 "Little Canada," l)y Cr\stal Lake, and see the floating hearts { Liin- 

 m-mthcmuDi lar/tiios/iiii ) covering the surface, with the slender pipewort 

 ( Eriocaitlon scptcDigularc ) tlirusting its white points beside them. 



The White Beach, Lake Denison. 



Go past Bailey brook, with its vistas of reflections and promises of 

 autumnal glories in the foliage on its banks, where 



" Down bend the banks, the trees depending 

 grow, 

 And skies beneath with answering colours 

 glow," 



past the meadows, yellow in spring with cowslip blossoms ( Calf ha 

 pahistris ) and the golden ragwort ( Seiiccio aureus ), down the long hill 

 where the rhodora grows, its frail, naked blossoms lighting up the 

 whole bleak pasture, on down to the head of the Reservoir, where the 

 whispering pines meet in converse overhead, and form 



"***** a pillared shade 

 Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue," 



