THE ENGADINE OUT OF SEASON. 



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They are really spring flowers of the still high but medium levels, and 

 no one who has not seen them there in their proper season can imagine 

 their brilliancy or abundance. No climbing is required to find them in 

 June. They are within reach of the feeblest walker along the high roads 

 of the Upper Engadine, and their banks and meadows, 



When I arrived at Silvaplana on June 20, the whole country was 

 literally carpeted with them, and long before I left, on July 17, the tall 

 grass had swallowed up all trace of them in the meadows, and only the 

 dry greenish -grey horns of Gentiana cxcisa and the seed-clocks of 

 Anemone sulphurea remained among the shorter grass of the steep 

 mountain-sides to record something of the glory departed a month ago. 



Peach Tree in Pot. (The Garden. 



