en turning suddenly to the right, and descending by
a deep cart-track, which led between wild banks covered with heath and
feathery broom, garlanded with bramble and briar roses, and gay with
the purple heath-flower and the delicate harebell,* to a scene even more
beautiful and more solitary than the hamlet itself.

* One of the pleasantest moments that I have ever known, was
that of the introduction of an accomplished young American
to the common harebell, upon the very spot which I have
attempted to describe. He had never seen that English wild-
flower, consecrated by the poetry of our common language,
was struck even more than I expected by its delicate beauty,
placed it in his button-hole, and repeated with enthusiasm
the charming lines of Scott, from the Lady of the Lake:--

"For me,"--she stooped, and, looking round,
Plucked a blue harebell from the ground,--
"For me, whose memory scarce conveys
An image of more splendid days,
This little flower, that loves the lea,
May well my simple emblem be;
It drinks heaven's dew as blithe as rose
That in the King's own garden grows,
And when I place it in my hair,
Allan, a bard, is bound to swear
He ne'er saw coronet so fair."

Still greater was the delight with which another
American recognised that blossom of a thousand
associations--the flower sacred to Milton and Shakspeare--the
English primrose. He bent his knee to the ground in
gathering a bunch, with a reverential expression which I
shall not easily forget, as if the flower were to him an
embodiment of the great poets by whom it has been
consecrated to fame; and he also had the good taste not to
be ashamed of his own enthusiasm. I have had the pleasure of
exporting, this spring, to my friend Miss Sedgwick, (to
whose family one of my visiters belongs,) roots and seeds of
these wild flowers, of the common violet, the cowslip, and
the ivy, another of our indigenous plants which our
Transatlantic brethren want, and with which Mr. Theodore
Sedgwick was especially delighted. It will be a real
distinction to be the introductress of these plants into
that _Berkshire_ village of New England, where Miss
Sedgwick, surrounded by relatives worthy of her in talent
and in character, p