Flowers in Colorado. 



better opportunities to the col- 

 lector to fill his herbarium 

 with beautiful and rare speci- 

 mens easily and rapidly. The 

 wealth of foliage found in 

 moister climates does not obstruct 

 the view and hide the more modest 

 flowers, while the perpendicular range 

 of nearly two thousand feet, through which he may pass 

 on his botanical rambles, carries him from a climate as 

 genial as that of Charleston to one as thoroughly boreal 

 as that of the glaciers of Greenland." Not the least 

 of the delights of living in such a flower-garden as 

 Colorado in June and July is the delight of seeing the 

 delight which little children take in the flowers. 

 Whenever in winter I try to recall the face of our 

 June, I think I recall the blossoms oftenest as they 

 look in the hands of the school-children. 

 Morning, noon, and evening, you see 

 troops of children going to and fro, all 

 carrying flowers ; the babies on doorsteps 

 are playing with them ; and late in the 



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