Picturesque Quebec, By James Macpherson Le Moine










































































































































 -  Would you, most worthy
friend, like to see some of the bright gems which spring, whilst dallying
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Would You, Most Worthy Friend, Like To See Some Of The Bright Gems Which Spring, Whilst Dallying Over The Sequestered, Airy Heights And Swampy Marshes Of Our Woods Drops Along Our Path?

Follow, then, sketch book and pencil in hand, the fairy footsteps of one of the most amiable women which

Old England ever sent to our climes, accompany the Countess of Dalhousie on a botanizing tour through Sillery woods; you have her note book, if not herself, to go by. For May, see what an ample store of bright flowers scattered around you; fear not to lose yourself in thickets and underbrush; far from the beaten track a noble lady has ransacked the environs over and over again, sometimes alone, sometimes with an equally enthusiastic and intelligent friend, who hailed from Woodfield; [243] sweet flowers and beautiful ferns attract other noble ladies to this day in that wood. Are you anxious to possess the first-born of spring? Whilst virgin snow still whitens the fields, send a young friend to pluck for you, from the willow, its golden catkins: -

"The first gilt thing Decked with the earliest pearls of spring."

The Gomin Wood will, with the dawn of May, afford you materials for a wreath, rich in perfume and wild in beauty. The quantity of wild flowers, to be found in the environs of Quebec has called forth the following remarks from one of Flora's most fervid votaries, a gentleman well known in this locality: - "A stranger," says he, "landing in this country, is much surprised to find the flowers which he has carefully cultivated in his garden at home, growing wild at his feet.

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