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are to be in the heath, here and there,not in any order. 

 Hike also little heaps in the nature of molehills (such 

 as are in wild heaths) to be set, some with wild thyme, 

 some with pinks, some with germander that gives a 

 good flower to the eye ; some with periwinkle, some 

 with violets, some tvith strawberries, some with cows- 

 lips, some with daisies, some with red roses, some 

 with lilium convallium, some with sweet-williams 

 red, some with bears foot, and the like low flowers, 

 being withal sweet and sightly." Now, after you read 

 that and shut your eyes, can you not picture that 

 wild heath before you ? Can you not derive from the 

 imagination a sense of enjoyment from that printed 

 page ? If you cannot, I think you should be able to, 

 and that in our short Scottish winter days we should 

 from the literature of gardens be able to conjure up 

 something of our own summer delights. 



