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SCENERY ROUND HAKODADI. 
dandelion is liere, with the familiar jagged leaves ; 
and we gathered the spikes of Plantago media for 
our canaries. The lily of the valley, in her modest 
robes of white and green, is grovdng in profusion, 
and on the sandy soil the gay Calystegia Soldanella 
is flaunting in all her finery. The Chinese j)iDk 
grows beside the shepherd's-jmrsc, and the Trollius 
japonicus mingles her yellow flowers with the golden 
cuj^s of Caltha palustris. The Japanese day-lily 
vies vdth the Iris japonica. The bee-haunted 
blooms of Stephanandra flexuosa are seen in the 
swampy plains ; and in many parts the eye is 
gladdened Avith roses, celandines, honeysuckles, 
and anemones. The entire scenery, so lavishly 
variegated with flowers, is A^ery pleasing to those 
Avho have recently left the bari’en rounded hills of 
Northern China, or the green sameness of the rice- 
fields in the South. 
On entering the toAAui the impression produced is 
equally agreeable, the quiet and order which cA^ery- 
Avhere prevail contrasting so remarkably A\dth the 
noise, dirt, and confusion of Chinese cities. There is 
