CHAPTER III 

 WILD FLOWERS 



WILD flowers are as universal as trees, 

 if less noticeable. No rambler, 

 afield or otherwise, can fail to 

 notice the trees, although he may readily fail 

 to pay attention to the flowers, because to do 

 so demands a certain amount of observation, 

 and every pedestrian is not an observer. On 

 this account I have placed the flowers after 

 the trees, but I do not thereby imply 

 that they are second in my esteem. On 

 the contrary, I believe that some of the purest 

 pleasures of life are associated with flowers 

 more especially wild flowers. They entwine 

 themselves with many incidents of our lives, 

 and appealing as they do to two senses, sight 

 and smell, act as a powerful stimulus to the 

 memory, and bring back to recollection 'the 



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