T IT R B I N A T E 

 B E li L - F L W E li. 



Canijxinith:! I urh'nuita . 



HIS pretty bell-flower illus- 

 'I trates in a pleasing' manner the 

 prevailing difference between 

 the flowers of the uiountain and 

 r.iiise of the jJain. The i-a.ni- 

 bling botanist of lai-ye experi- 

 ence eau tell us in a moment the 

 kind of country whence a ])lant 

 has been derived, oven if he 

 Jannot name the country or the 

 jilantolf-hand. AVhen he linds 

 the leaves small and in a eom- 

 ]iact tuft, and the flnwers la.i'g;o 

 and somewhat prominently dis- 

 played, he will declare it to be 

 a plant cd' the mountains, ac- 

 customed to a strong light, and 

 to frost and sndw and keen 

 breezes. The ])lants of the 

 valley are by comparison larye and lesifv, with thnvers less 

 coiispieuiins ; and however beautiful, as m;\ny of them are, 

 thev lack thetuft\', closel v-jiaeked, jiin-cushion gi'owth and 

 brilliant colours of the true mountain flowers. Thisliell- 



