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amongst these the yellow violet the Viola lutea 

 which we figure on Plate XLVII. From its asso- 

 ciations, recalling pleasant holidays spent amongst 

 the mountains, and from its attractiveness it has no 

 difficulty in establishing a full claim on our regard. 



Those of our readers who have visited Kew 

 Gardens will no doubt have seen the fine collec- 

 tion of paintings of plants by Miss North, made by 

 her in Brazil, India, South Africa, Japan, and other 

 countries where beautiful and interesting flowers 

 were to be found, and she finally sums up her 

 ''Recollections of a Happy Life" with her belief, 

 founded on her wide experience : " No life is so 

 charming as a country one in England, and no 

 flowers are sweeter or more lovely than the prim- 

 roses, cowslips, bluebells, and violets which grow in 

 abundance all around me here," the " quiet home 

 in the country " for which she sought being found 

 at Alderley, in Gloucestershire. Here she spent 

 the last five years of her life, and here she died. 



The broom should find a welcome from its frag- 

 rance 1 and its wealth of colour, 2 since a plant in 



1 " Sweet is the broom flowre." 



SPENSER. 



" We sate us down 

 Amid the fragrance of the yellow broom." 



WILSON. 

 2 "The broom, 

 Yellow and bright as bullion unalloyed." 



COWPER. 



