. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. A LITTLE TOUR IN THE ALPS. 85 of Pine woods above and among them. Others still higher, and with the verdure less visible, are behind, and above all a great, bony, steep-scarped, dark range stretching all across the view. The hollows between the angular-pointed ridges are white with vast fields of snow, while others seem variegated with it in narrower bands, against the dark framework of the mountains. Clouds cap this far-off region—round, high, silvery clouds, con- trasting with the deep blue sky above, and the wide range of mount
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. A LITTLE TOUR IN THE ALPS. 85 of Pine woods above and among them. Others still higher, and with the verdure less visible, are behind, and above all a great, bony, steep-scarped, dark range stretching all across the view. The hollows between the angular-pointed ridges are white with vast fields of snow, while others seem variegated with it in narrower bands, against the dark framework of the mountains. Clouds cap this far-off region—round, high, silvery clouds, con- trasting with the deep blue sky above, and the wide range of mountains with the deep snow-seams down their dark sides below. A few minutes afterwards a break has occurred in these great " cloud-lands," and something reveals itself among them lit up with the hues of the silvery woolpacks around, and yet not of them, for there is here and there a dark spot suggestive of solid earth, and you ask yourself, can it be that that is a mountain ? Yes, that is the tall old father of all the magnificent mountains around, his head silvery with age, while his eldest sons are merely beginning to show the silver here and there, and the younger ones have not a trace of anything but the fresh hue of youth. The indescribable variety and beauty of the country traversed on descending the other side of the Salfeve, and the margins of calm, blue, celestial-looking Lake Leman, with vast ranges of snowy mountains beyond its broad expanse, give the young traveller a very rose-coloured impression of the Alps, which forty-eight hours' jour- ney from Geneva was quite sufficient to modify in my case. The country has every conceivable variety of attrac- tive pastoral scenery, and, better still, the human beings in it seem to partake of the felicity which appears to be here the lot of all animated nature. Their cottages and houses, nestling in nooks in the sweetest of flowery fields, and carved out of the abundant wood ot the region, snug gar- dens, fields of e
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