Chapter 16 LIMESTONE COASTS AND CLIFFS

Where the most beautiful wildflowers grow, there man's

spirit is fed.-Thoreau.

A limestone soil is everywhere rich in flowers-we have seen what the midland dales can produce-but it is especially so in the close neighbourhood of the sea. Two instances suggest themselves; one from a Carnarvonshire promontory, the Orme's Head; the other from Arn