THE FLOWER-FIELDS OF
ALPINE SWITZERLAND
CALTHA PALUSTRIS and PRIMULA    FARINOSA on the upper fields of    Champex towards the end of May.  
THE FLOWER-FIELDS OF
ALPINE SWITZERLAND
AN APPRECIATION AND A PLEA
PAINTED AND WRITTEN
BY
G. FLEMWELL
AUTHOR OF “ALPINE FLOWERS AND GARDENS”
“Into the fieldes did he goe, which then  faire Flora bedecked,
redolent blossoms, O how grateful to the sences.”
Francis Sabie,Pan’s Pipe.
WITH TWENTY-SIX REPRODUCTIONS
OF WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS
London    ::     ::      HUTCHINSON & CO.
  Paternoster Row       ::        ::        ::        1911
 TO

MADEMOISELLE MARTHE DEDIE

AND ALL AT

“LA COMBE,” ROLLE (VAUD)
[Pg vii]
PREFACE
Last year Mr. G. Flemwell gave us a verybeautiful volume upon the Alpine Flora, and ithas met with well-deserved success. But theauthor is not yet satisfied. He thinks to dobetter, and would now make known other pictures—thoseof Alpine fields, especially during thespring months.
Springtime in our Alps is certainly the mostbeautiful moment of the year, and the monthsof May and June, even to the middle of July,are the most brilliant of all. It is a season which,up to the present, we have rather considered asreserved for us Swiss, who do not much like thatwhich is somewhat irreverently called l’industriedes étrangers, and perhaps we shall not be altogetherenchanted to find that the author à la modeis about to draw the veil from our secrets, openthe lock-gates of our most sacred joys to the[Pg viii]international flood, and sound the clarion to makeknown, urbe et orbi, the springtime glory of ourfields. With this one little reservation to calmthe egotistical anxiety which is in me (Mr. Flemwell,who is my colleague in the Swiss AlpineClub, knows too well our national character notto understand the spirit in which we make certainreservations with regard to this invasion of ourmountains by the cosmopolitan crowd), I wishto thank the author, and to compliment him uponthis fresh monument which he raises to the gloryof our flowers.
He here presents them under a different aspect,and shows us the Alpine field, the meadow, thegreat green slope as they transform themselvesin springtime. He sings of this rebirth with hispoet-soul, and presents it in pictures which areso many hymns to the glory of the Creator. Andhe is justified in this, for nothing in the worldis more marvellous than the re-flowering of Alpinefields in May and June. I have seen it in thelittle vallons of Fully and of Tourtemagne inValais, in the fields of Anzeindaz and of Taveyannaz(Canton de Vaud), at the summit of the[Pg ix]Gemmi and on the Oberalp in the Gri                        
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