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CHAPTER VIII. 
AUCUST. 
Tue labour, or rather the pleasure, of the young botanist, is 
in this month, beginning to decline in one respect ; for the 
number of new plants in flower is lessening considerably. 
The heat of July has brought so many plants to perfection, 
that the followmg month seems bare in comparison. The 
July flowers, however, extend their beauties over a con- 
siderable space of time, so that the barrenness of the present 
season 1s only in new productions. The rich and glowing 
scenes of summer are now spread abroad in all their attrac- 
tive beauty; fields of waving and ripe corn, trees in full 
leaf, orchards producing almost every tint in their ripe fruit, 
and hedges lively with the variety of wild flowers, form 
aliogether a lovely picture, and ought to raise in our hearts 
grateful feelings to Providence for all these beauties and 
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