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moorlands. Many of these flowers are your low- 

 land friends, slightly dwarfed in some cases, but 

 with charms even fresher, brighter, and more 

 lovely than those of the blooms you know. 

 Numerous upland stretches are crowded and 

 colored in indescribable richness, — acres of 

 purple, blue, and gold. The flowers, by crowd- 

 ing the moist outskirts of snow-drifts, make 

 striking encircling gardens of bloom. In con- 

 tributed and unstable soil-beds, amid ice and 

 boulders, they take romantic rides and bloom 

 upon the cold backs of the crawling glaciers, 

 and thus touch with color and beauty the most 

 savage of wild scenes. 



The distribution and arrangement of the 

 flowers has all the charm of the irregular, and 

 for the most part is strikingly effective and de- 

 lightfully artistic. They grow in bunches and 

 beds; the stalks are long and short; rock towers 

 and barren debris frown on meadow gardens 

 and add to the attractiveness of the millions of 

 mixed blossoms that dance or smile. Ragged 

 tongues of green and blossoms extend for miles. 

 One of the peculiarities of a few of these plants 



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