A BUNCH OF HERBS 1 -7 



toss in the breeze, and they would not be Bweet- 

 scented like the daffodils. 



It is to be remembered, too, that in the moi 

 atmosphere of England the same amount of fragrance 

 would be much more noticeable than with us. 

 Think how our sweet bay, or our pink azalea, or 

 our white alder, to which they have nothing thai 

 corresponds, would perfume that heavy, vapor-laden 

 air! 



In the woods and groves in England, the wild 

 hyacinth grows very abundantly in spring, and in 

 places the air is loaded with its fragrance. In 

 woods a species of dicentra, commonly called squir- 

 rel corn, has nearly the same perfume, and its 

 racemes of nodding whitish flowers, tinged with 

 red, are quite as pleasing to the eye, but it i- 

 shyer, less abundant plant. When our children 

 to the fields in April and May, they can bring home 

 no wild flowers as pleasing as the sweel English 

 violet, and cowslip, and yellow daffodil, and wall- 

 flower; and, when British children go t.> the woods 

 at the same season, they can load their hands and 

 baskets with nothing that compares with our trail- 

 ing arbutus, or, later in the season, with our azale 

 and, when their boys go fishing or boating in sum- 

 mer, they can wreathe themselves with nothing 

 that approaches our pond-lily. 



There are upward of thirty species of fragrant 

 native wild flowers and flowering shrubs and tn 

 in New England and New Fork, and, no doubt, 

 many more in the South and West, My list is 

 follows: — 



