:R-FIEr<DS OF Ai 



id dreai' 

 startled back to the preseni 

 the damp earth yields" — last ru: 

 but in some ways equal to the first. 



This Colchicum receives, in sprnig, iit 

 and in autumn, as much general attenti( 

 plant in Alpine or sub- Alpine vegetation 

 spring and summer the cluster of rich-giecii 

 Lily-hke lenxcs ;{ttrar'^s the eye and raises the 

 curiosity *^ion of even the casual 



o'- 



ROSA ALPINA, the thornless Alpine Eglantine. 



nestling in the heart of the leaves ; for if there is 

 one family of plants which the world worships 

 more than another, it is the Lily family. And 

 this Autumn Crocus is very commonly taken for 

 ;i Lily — a Lily soon to burst into rare and glorious 

 bloom. 



But it is not the flower-bud our casual observer 

 sees ; it is the seed-head. The plant blooms, leaf- 

 less, in the autumn ; its seed-vessel is tucked 



for the winter a foot or more beneath the au 



of the ground, to rise with the leaves in the sprinii 

 and to ripen with the leaves in the summer. 



