. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. 8o ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. green and bushless carpets of grass here and. there, which cuts off vine, and corn, and meadow, from the slopes of the mountains. Here in this, at half past six in the morning, the nightingale is singing; while white-headed eagles float aloft, now over the lake, and now over plain and hill, sometimes on motion- less wing, and yet rapidly and silently gliding along on the look-out for prey. From floating bird in glowing air, perfumed by wild Lily-bf-the-valley, the white bells of which may be seen leaning out of
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. 8o ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. green and bushless carpets of grass here and. there, which cuts off vine, and corn, and meadow, from the slopes of the mountains. Here in this, at half past six in the morning, the nightingale is singing; while white-headed eagles float aloft, now over the lake, and now over plain and hill, sometimes on motion- less wing, and yet rapidly and silently gliding along on the look-out for prey. From floating bird in glowing air, perfumed by wild Lily-bf-the-valley, the white bells of which may be seen leaning out of it,s tufts of tender green, at the base of the. Fig- 55-—In the woody region. bushes, to the flower-clad heaps of stone, and in every peep which 'the eye obtains through the bush and wood to the villa- dotted margins of the lake, the scene is one of unalloyed beauty and abounding life— " A populous solitude of bees, and birds, And fairy-formed and many-coloured things.'' Some magnificent gorges and precipices are gradually reached and exposed to view, every crevice having some plant in it, and all the ledges being clothed with the greenest grass or bushes, the precipices being so well, covered to the very brows that the. 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. London : J. Murray
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