190 A GLANCE AT BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 



ours, and it had no perfume. Indeed, in the matter 

 of sweet-scented flowers, our flora shows by far the 

 most varieties, the British flora seeming richer in this 

 respect by reason of the abundance of specimens of 

 any given kind. 



It is, indeed, a flowery land ; a kind of perpetual 

 spring-time reigns there, a perennial freshness and 

 bloom such as our fierce skies do not permit. 



