404 THE ROLL OF THE SEASONS 



winter heliotrope, whether we have seen it in our own 

 woods or sheeting a glacier's bank in Switzerland. 

 Earliest of them all, it is a most grateful blossom ; 

 far too rarely found in gardens ; not merely a pleasure 

 to the eye but, with the exception of " winter-sweet " 

 (Chimonanthus fragrans\ delicious Berberis bealii, 

 almost the only winter flower that is scented. So 

 winter heliotrope, last but not least of the blossoms 

 here set down, shall bloom in our garden while the 

 garden lasts. 



