NATURE NEAR LONDON 2EEI35: 



glare of the sunshine. The peace of green things 

 reigns. 



It is not necessary to go further in ; this spot at 

 the very entrance is equally calm and still, for 

 there is no margin of partial disturbance repose 

 begins at the edge. Perhaps it is best to be at once 

 content, and to move no further; to remain, like 

 the lime tree, in one spot, with the sunshine and 

 the sky, to close the eyes and listen to the thrush. 

 Something, however, urges exploration. 



The majority of visitors naturally follow the 

 path, and go round into the general expanse ; but 

 I will turn from here sharply to the right, and 

 crossing the sward there is, after a few steps only, 

 another enclosing wall. Within this enclosure, 

 called the Herbaceous Ground, heedlessly passed 

 and perhaps never heard of by the thousands who 

 go to see the Palm Houses, lies to me the real and 

 truest interest of Kew. For here is a living dic- 

 tionary of English wild flowers. 



The meadow and the cornfield, the river, the 

 mountain and the woodland, the seashore, the very 

 waste place by the roadside, each has sent its pe- 

 culiar representatives, and glancing for the moment, 

 at large, over the beds, noting their number and 

 extent, remembering that the specimens are not in 

 the mass but individual, the first conclusion is that 

 our own country is the true Flowery Land. 

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