Let Any One See Them As I Have Seen Them,
A Large Flowerbed Of An Acre And More, One Mass
Of the brightest yellow, a
crystal stream meandering through their midst, the beautiful Falls of
Montmorenci across the river rolling
Their deep strains of Nature's music,
the rising tide of the St. Lawrence beating with refreshing waves at their
feet, and a cloudless azure sky over head, from which the rosy tints of
early morn had hardly disappeared, and if his soul be not ready to
overflow with gratitude to the Supreme Being who has made everything so
beautiful and good, I do not know what to think of him. I would not be
such a man, 'I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon.'"
The whole Gomin bog is studded with Smilacina Bifolia, sometimes
erroneously called the white lily of the valley, also the Smilacina
Trifolia, the Dentaria, the Streptopus roseus or twisted stem, a
rose-colored flower, bearing red berries in the fall. There are also in
this wood, trillium, the May flower, Hepatica, and Symplocarpus,
thickets crowned with Rhodoras in full bloom - a bush a few feet high
with superb rose-colored flowers - the general appearance of a cluster of
bushes is most magnificent. In the same locality, further in the swamp,
may be found the Kalmia angustifolia bearing very pretty compact rose-
colored flowers like small cups divided into five lobes, also the
beautiful Ladies' Slipper Orchis (Cypripedum humile) in thousands on the
borders of the swamp, - such is Sillery wood in May.
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