. British mosses, their homes, aspects, structure and uses : with a coloured figure of each species etched from nature. INTRODUCTION. Section I. THE HOMES OF " Kocks overlaid with velvet and fur, to stand on in the first place. If you look close into the velvet, you will find it is jewelled and set with stars in a stately ;—Ruskin, Notes on the Exhibitions, 1859. T was tlie third day of creation. God had gathered the waters together^ and the earth appearing, it lay under the new-born light, silent, and still, and bare. But when the light dawned for the second time. He sp
. British mosses, their homes, aspects, structure and uses : with a coloured figure of each species etched from nature. INTRODUCTION. Section I. THE HOMES OF " Kocks overlaid with velvet and fur, to stand on in the first place. If you look close into the velvet, you will find it is jewelled and set with stars in a stately ;—Ruskin, Notes on the Exhibitions, 1859. T was tlie third day of creation. God had gathered the waters together^ and the earth appearing, it lay under the new-born light, silent, and still, and bare. But when the light dawned for the second time. He spake the word, and the brown land flashed suddenly into a thousand hues. The green grass came forth; the reeds sprang up by the newly- formed watercom'ses; afar off, where the sun was to bm-n, rose the forest with aU. its flowers in their glorious beauty, that beauty which should even cause the Creator to rejoice in Heaven; the northern pines stood up, row after row, like the pillars of a temple; the southern palm waved its lovely head; the kingly cedars were planted beneath the snows of Lebanon; and on the slopes of the Himalayah the rhododendrons blazed in scarlet, and gold, and orange, to be kindled into greater splendour when they caught the sun's first rays ; and for us, in our island home, God set the daisies among the grass to gladden the hearts of little children, and in that wondrous spring-time called out the primroses in the woodland dells, and spread the purple heather on the mountain sides, and bade the golden fui'ze fill the air with its scent. And not only was the earth's greatness adorned, for its very smallest corner B. 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 Tripp, Frances Elizabeth, 1832-1890. London : George Bell and Sons
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