96 ODOES OF VEGETATION. 



indeed seems niggardly of her gifts to the honey-sipping 

 insects, for the flowers of this season are as destitute of 

 sweetness as of fragrance. The charms of autumn are 

 chiefly for the eye, — of tinted woods and gorgeous flow- 

 ers, that attract us more by their glowing profusion than 

 by any particular beauty as individual objects. 



