ACCORDING TO SEASON 



Daisies 

 and prim- 

 roses 



Spiraa 



and 



genista 



Heath 

 family 



mountains was my delight in the green meadows 

 at their feet, studded with the delicate blossoms 

 of the fall crocus. A few days after this en- 

 trance into Switzerland, during a climb up one of 

 the lower mountains, I found the lovely cyclamen, 

 and soon learned to look upon this peculiarly satis- 

 fying flower, one of our most treasured importa- 

 tions, as the natural companion of my walks. 



The little English daisy recalls a May morning 

 at Hampton Court, where the smooth, grassy 

 sweeps were starred with the dainty blossoms. 



The close bunches of yellow primroses ped- 

 dled at the street-corners, conjure up a vision 

 of that quiet, high-banked flower-girt lane where 

 perhaps we first heard the nightingale, where 

 certainly, once and for all, we fell under the spell 

 of the tranquil beauty of the mother-country. 



One of our favorite Easter plants is the feathery 

 white spiraea. This is a Japanese cousin of our 

 well-known meadow-sweet and steeple-bush. The 

 yellow genista, so abundant now, comes, I be- 

 lieve, from New Zealand. It suggests the wild 

 indigo so common with us in summer, and also 

 the English broom, all three of these plants being 

 closely allied. The lovely foreign heaths, which 

 look as though they came straight from the 

 Scotch moors, could claim kinship with our trail- 

 ing arbutus, our mountain-laurel, and with other 



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