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of its flowers to tiny fragile rock-roses is quite striking. 

 This and many of the plants of my mountain garden 

 are among the gems of our valley flora; but most 

 curious among them all is a tiny floating water- 

 weed the bladder-wort a subtle fish-poacher. 



Sandwort, bog-rush and stitchwort elbow each 

 other for existence, and everywhere the flutter of 

 wings shows that birds love the tarn as well as plants. 

 The quaint water-avens look like hooded nuns in 

 their curious brown petals, and show as one of the 

 prettiest and most prominent flowers of the tarn. 

 Last of all is the grass of Parnassus, with its hand- 

 some cream-coloured flowers marked with darker 

 veins. With nothing grass-like about it, it rears 

 its graceful head to the soft summer breeze, and is 

 perhaps the most beautiful of all the floral denizens 

 of my mountain garden. 



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COLSTON AND COY. LIMITED PRINTERS, EDINBURGH 



