98 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



their protective cup, reveals a striking beauty to the 

 true lover of nature. And when in the glamour of an 

 August morn he stands upon a hillside and views 

 acre upon acre of the broad purple cymes waving in 

 the valley beneath, all memories of the plant as a per- 

 nicious weed are blotted from his mind by the attrac- 

 tiveness of the scene before him. 



