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you know not what you lose by neglecting the call 

 of the flowers from off these Alpine fields." 



Go where you will — Champex alone is not the 

 Alpine throne of Flora ; she reigns superbly to 

 right and left, from Neuchatel to Valais, from 

 Tessin to Geneva — go where you will amid the 

 Alps and you will find fields that shall enchant 

 you, rejuvenating your spirit and causing the 

 "knapsack of custom," full of "city estimates of 

 great and small, wise and foolish," to slip from 

 your back. The plains of the world are the 

 better for the mountains of the world, and in no 

 respect more so than when the mountains are 

 a-flower. 



