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CHAPTER VI. 
JUNE. 
I rrusr the young botanist will not be dismayed by the 
number of plants to be examined during this beautiful 
month, when spring has yielded to summer, and most places 
are crowded with vegetation ; still, no one will be so fortunate 
as to meet with all, and therefore some part of the difficulty 
is lessened at once. Flowers, with their odours and endless 
hues, constitute, at this season, one of our most pleasing and 
innocent recreations. Sterile tracts, as heaths and moors, 
even begin to assume a gay appearance, though their prin- 
cipal ornament, the heath plants, are only now budding. 
The interest which a common walk in the fields receives 
from the study of botany, can only be known to those who 
have experienced it; and I trust my readers will soon feel 
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