Chap. III:] 



THE GARDEN OP PLANTS. 



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First we think of the flora of France, beautiful exceedingly in 

 many parts, rich and varied beyond description or remembrance 

 We have the France of the blue warm sea, with its lavender- 

 and rosemary-clad hills, Anemones and Narcissi in its winter 

 fields, and woods fragrant with Myrtle and aromatic herbs. 





CEDRELA. SINENSIS ^New Tree).— Garden of Plants. 



Colder and later than the maritime Alps, we have those of Savoy, 

 with a glorious alpine flora ; the A;rdennes and the Vosges ; the 

 Alps of^Dauphiny ; and the wide area of the Pyrenean slopes and 

 meadov7S and valleys. And we have the France of the lower hills 

 and plains, with their wild Eoses and Harebells, and the flora 

 of the western sea-shores, and of Brittany and of Normandy— 



