Junebells

If you were out in a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and Junebells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in you branches, you could grow, couldn't you?

Anne of Green Gables 1908

Ghostlike scents crept out of the meadows to meet us, and the fir wood before we came to the church was a living sweetness of Junebells growing in abundance.

The Golden Road 1908

Junebells have another and more scientific name, of course.

The Golden Road 1908

They are so perfect in their way that they seem to epitomize the very scent and charm of the forest, as if the old wood's daintiest thoughts had materialized in blossom; and not all the roses by Bendameer's stream are as fragrant as a shallow sheet of Junebells under the boughs of fir.

The Golden Road 1908

But who could desire a better name than Junebells?

The Golden Road 1908