IV 



June and Early July 



HEN Coleridge called this 



— '* the leafy month of June " 



it seems to me that he struck 

 the note of the first summer month more 

 distinctly than our own Bryant, who wrote 

 of ''flowery June." June is, above all 

 things, '' leafy," seeming chiefly to con- 

 centrate her energies on her foliage ; for 

 although she really is not lacking in flow- 

 ers, they are almost swamped in the great 

 green flood which has swept silently but 

 irresistibly across the land. At times one 

 loses sight of them altogether, and fan- 



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