Show ice rl blowers among natural formations which haye hare attracted general attention because of their beauty snow crystals will well repay a close examination and nowhere are they to be seen in more perfect and varied form than in the enga diDe where they are popularly known as ice flowers they bud it if I 1 may so express it with the first sharp breath of frost cas casting ting their fragile tendrils its into a hundred delicate forms wherever a suspicion of humidity can be transformed into a glittering jewel the first effect of frost everywhere Is in the form of an ice flower so that these delicate structures are to be met with at home under many conditions and notably in the beautiful tracings of frost on the windowpanes window panes where however the flower is not able to achieve individual perfection on tree and bush the effects are much more satisfactory and ice flowers beautiful and varied in form can be examined at leisure but after all these give but a taint faint idea of the beauty and delicacy of the ice flowers of the eng ingadine engadine adine where the air is clearer and purer and where conditions conspire to favor their growth indeed what strikes the observer at once Is that nature has been to them a kind and skillful horticulturist displaying their beauties to the best advantage by a charming setting of mountain girt lake under calm and cloudless blue skies probably few persons realize how much of the beauty of the surface of the snow in the eng ingadine engadine adine Is ii due t to 0 the enrichment of the tha network of crystals which cover it but a mist tor for a few hours la is absolutely necessary to their formation and I 1 know few sights more lovely than this gray cray curtain first covering everything and then gradually dissolving leaving a landscape glittering with hoar boar frost one of 0 the delights of the th eng ingadine engadine adine Is ii to take a walk in the morning and watch the growth of the ice flower this la 13 always quite possible when there is a suspicion of moistness mol in the air tor for then you can see the icy particles floating iridescent feathery points ln in the clear light of the morning and settling here and there on any projecting point on the snow carpet of the ice crust forming the first fairylike fairy like foundation a skeleton of crystal of the flower which grows so rapidly that one can watch it taking shape and attaining perfection pearsons magazine |