CHAPTER XVIII 

 SOME EARLY FLOWERS 



Late flowers at Land's End Sweet-scented colt's-foot Its luxuri- 

 ance and beauty A pretty and singular girl A gardener on 

 the colt's-foot Colt's-foot in Madron churchyard A vegetable 

 rat Billy and his charlock bouquet "Farmer's Glory" Early 

 blue flowers A matter-of-fact girl Vernal squill Beauty and 

 habits A blue band by the sea The glory of flowers Secret 

 of the charm of flowers Expression of the blue flower. 



BIRDS are perhaps too much to me ; at all 

 events, I find that an entire chapter has been 

 written on the coming of spring without a word 

 in it about flowers ; it was nearly all taken up with 

 the feathered people. Yet one cannot think of spring 

 without those little touches of moist brilliant colour 

 shining gem-like among the old dead brown leaves 

 and herbage and in all green places. Even here, in 



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