The Swiss Riviera 
A FIELD OF NARCISSUS A CORNER OF THE CHATEAU d’aIGLE 
there is a fete des Narcisses, 
when all the peasants and 
townspeople join in pro¬ 
cessions, dances, and battles 
of flowers, using the narcissus 
as a decoration, and there 
are many thousands of 
francs given as prizes. 
The level ground along 
the lake front is now mostly 
covered with small towns, 
villas and hotels, of the 
last of which there are 
eighty on the telephone list; 
but back of these and rising 
up the hill, are stdl the fine 
old vineyards. They are, 
however, every year being 
cut into for the purpose of 
new buildings. On a higher 
level are the hotels at Mont. 
Pellerin, Les Avants, Glion 
and Caux. The hotel at 
Caux is an immense affair, 
open all the year, but the 
principal season is winter, 
when the usual pastime is 
leuging } or in other words, 
TOUR DES SORCIERS-SION 
“bob-sledding.” The highest 
point of all the hills, Les 
Rochers de Naye, which is 
reached by cogwheel steam 
railway, is also crowned by 
a hotel. 
This past summer, 1905, 
there was at Vevey a fete 
des Vignerons — a meeting 
of the “Brotherhood of 
Vine-growers,’’which is held 
only every fifteen years. 
The origin is not definitely 
known, but it has existed in 
one form or another for 
about three and a half cen¬ 
turies. It is “an original 
and characteristic manifesta¬ 
tion of the genie of the place. 
It is the synthese and artistic 
glorification of agricultural 
labor, and more especially of 
the culture of the vine. ” It 
is a great spectacular repre¬ 
sentation of the different 
seasons of the year, given by 
the peasants, showing their 
occupations in fields and 
III 
