Frequented Ways; A General Survey of the Land Forms, Climates and Vegetation of Western Europe, Considered in Their Relation to the Life of Man
by Marion Isabel Newbigin (9781150346859)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Subjects: Physical geography Human geography Europe Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI THE PLANT AND ITS HOME: A STUDY OF FITNESS ' Follow to the deep wood's weeds, Follow to the wild-briar dingle.' The majority of travellers must always be those who seek in their travels rest and refreshment from their everyday work and surroundings, and as we are now predominantly a nation of town-dwellers, the tendency is to seek these in country districts. Among the sights of such regions it must always be the trees and flowers which make the widest appeal, and here recent scientific developments have done much for the unspecialised traveller. Till a comparatively short time ago an interest in plants was held to involve necessarily an acquaintance, more or less detailed, with systematic botany. This in its turn meant carrying a flora, preferably, for most people, an illustrated one, a supply of blotting paper, pressing boards, and a variety of other necessaries which will suggest themselves at once to the experienced. The plants collected found usually a temporary home in the water jug till such time as they could be decently shrouded in blotting paper, interred within the boards, and buried beneath one of the legs of the bed, to the huge indignation of the chambermaid. The operation of washing, never very easy in a mountain inn, was rendered more difficult by the floating remnants of the collection which seemed to accumulate to an alarming extent at the bottom of the ewer, and the net result wasthat one said to one's friends later, in a casual fashion, ' We found twenty-three gentians and ele...

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