* > ' t or fine the glow abides, t 

 its rich brilliance is certainly of Rum; 

 goes far to reconcile us to the lost 

 \'crnal Gentian. There can be few ......^ 



xng recollections of early summer days than 

 waist-deep amid the Rhododendrons overgr( 

 some ancient rock-fall, one gazed across a 

 expanse, sparingly broken by grey bouldei 

 blasted pine and falling away towards the s; 



of some s^ " dacier backed by snow-di 



crags and , with, in the foreground, 



occasional turfy intervals, groups of orange Arnic 



a! PRTMULA FARINOSA, GENTIAN A VERNA, 

 f,, Micheli's Daisy, BARTSIA ALPINA, 



^' ^ POLYGALA ALPINA, and the two 

 the oV Pinguiculas or Butterworts, painted directly 

 flies Hhm tli*-^ fiel^ls at the end of May. ^.hiiscd 



other in t:„ . „ , , inspiring : .... 



light " The Alpine Rhododendron . . . onc< 

 gave me," Mr. George Yeld tells us in his chr' ' 

 contributed to the Rev. W. A. B. Cooiidge's '' 

 Alps in Nature and in History," " one of the 

 effective sights in the flower-world that 1 

 recall. I came upon it in a late season 

 T^kododendi'on ferrugineum^ in a forest % 



rew at some distance apart. The brig) 

 i l1; ' H rich red — the exten' 



