. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. Part I. PLANT-HUXTING OY THE MOUNTAINS. 129 beds, and presently forming larger cascades near the path of the traveller, who is obliged to cross them by bridges. Then lower down they break and shoot perhaps for three hundred feet, till they join the main stream ot the valley below, which has cut itself an ever-winding, diving, and foaming bed between terraces, and clitfs, and gullies of rock, affording scenes of infinite beauty and variety. We walked twelve miles down the valley before breakfast, and every step revealed a
. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. Part I. PLANT-HUXTING OY THE MOUNTAINS. 129 beds, and presently forming larger cascades near the path of the traveller, who is obliged to cross them by bridges. Then lower down they break and shoot perhaps for three hundred feet, till they join the main stream ot the valley below, which has cut itself an ever-winding, diving, and foaming bed between terraces, and clitfs, and gullies of rock, affording scenes of infinite beauty and variety. We walked twelve miles down the valley before breakfast, and every step revealed a new charm. Before us, a great succession of blue mountains ; on each side, mountain slopes green to the line of blue sky ; behind, all the glory of the Monte Rosa group, in some places flat-topped and of the. Alpine Road through CHft". purest white, like vast unsculptured wedding cakes—in others, dark, scarred, and pointed to the sky, like some of the aged pines on their lower slopes, standing firmly but with branch and bark seared off" by the* fierce alpine blast. Lower down, the valley begins to show pleasant signs of human life, with really well-built and clean-looking houses ; the slopes of the hills are frequently terraced, to give the necessary level for pursuing a little cultivation ; and the churches are large and well decorated in the interior. Vines begin to appear, and for the most part are trained on a high loose trellis from five to seven feet above the surface of the ground, so as to permit of the cultivation of a crop underneath. The trellises are frequently held up by flat 9. 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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