. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. Part I. PLANT-HUNTING ON THE MOUNTAINS. 117 flowing beside it, and wild flowers, and noble trees, and goodly rocks gathered round into a perfection of Paradise, is itself a dark and plague-like stain in the midst of the gentle landscape. Within a certain distance of its thres- hold the ground is foul and cattle-trampled ; its timbers are black with smoke, its garden choked with weeds and name- less refuse, its chambers empty and joyless, the light and wind gleaming and filtering through the crannies of their stones. All t
. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. Part I. PLANT-HUNTING ON THE MOUNTAINS. 117 flowing beside it, and wild flowers, and noble trees, and goodly rocks gathered round into a perfection of Paradise, is itself a dark and plague-like stain in the midst of the gentle landscape. Within a certain distance of its thres- hold the ground is foul and cattle-trampled ; its timbers are black with smoke, its garden choked with weeds and name- less refuse, its chambers empty and joyless, the light and wind gleaming and filtering through the crannies of their stones. All testifies that, to its inhabitant, the world is. An Alpine Waterfall. labour and vanity ; that for him neither flowers bloom, nor birds sing, nor fountains glisten ; and that his soul hardly differs from the grey cloud that coils and dies upon his hills, except in having no fold of it touched by the sun- ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935; Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914. London : Murray
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