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cups, when "those long mosses in the stream" 

 begin to assume a livelier green, " and the wild 

 Marsh Marigold shines like a fire in swamps and 

 hollows grey." " Those long mosses in the stream" 

 of " The Miller's Daughter" are simply some of the 

 Water Crowfoots that silver over the pools with their 

 pretty white cup-like blossoms in early Summer; 

 and it is precisely the same brotherhood which 

 burnishes our meadows and " stamps the season of 

 Buttercups " with a glistening glory of colour not 

 equalled by any tropical flowers I have ever met 

 with. Now in going completely through the known 

 species of British plants I propose to enumerate 

 only those that are really worthy of garden culture, 

 and certain to reward our trouble in gathering and 

 planting them, and I do not recommend them from 

 published plates and descriptions, but from actual 

 experience in their culture. 



The first plant nam.ed in books of British 

 Plants is the Traveller's Joy (Clematis Vitalba), 

 the well-known common clematis that streams over 

 the trees, and falls in graceful folds from many a 

 low tree in many parts of the south of England, and 

 which is generally conspicuous enough in autumn 

 from the heads of large feathery awns that abound 

 on it at that season. It is of course well known 



