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genista in full blaze. I do not see why Linnseus should 

 have been so astounded at the furze-gold on Putney 

 Heath. This yellow broom is just as full of sunshine. 



I am bringing you down express through the 

 country, that I may efface myself the sooner : to be 

 personally conducted is a bore. 



Level again ; the undulations sweep away to the 

 westward. Many fine bay horses are grazing in this 

 part of the country. Another river, or fiord rather, is 

 overwaved by tall ash trees at Rendsborg, whose Dutch 

 aspect shows how far southward we have moved ; the 

 canals reflecting its brick church with lance-like spire, 

 and its Gothic and modern Gothic buildings ; the level 

 land melting off blue in the distance on one hand, and 

 dimpling into dune-like hillocks on the other. 



Hedges again, and wild roses, and girls binding 



June lilies into sheaves 



To deck the bridge-side chapel, dropping leaves 

 Soiled by their own loose gold meal. Sordello. 



After all one misses a good deal by living in the 

 North. One misses summer; it is all spring or 

 autumn there. My closer calculation is that in Sweden 

 June is spring, July summer, August autumn, and all 

 the rest winter. One is glad to see rich and varied 

 vegetation again, and roses twining over porches, and 

 to smell the sweet syringa. The hay, the flowers, the 

 breath of the whole land comes up in great wafts of 

 fragrance a scent of summer bloom, of clumps of pinks 

 and picotees, and tall fiery tiger lilies, with cows licking 



