VI 



Early August 



[F some one should ask me to 

 show him the place of all 

 others which would reveal the 

 largest number of striking 

 flowers peculiar to the season, I should 

 like to guide him to a certain salt-marsh 

 — a salt-marsh which is cut up here and 

 there by little inlets, where the water 

 runs up at high tide and laps its way far 

 inland, and which is dotted by occasion- 

 al islands of higher, drier land that are 

 covered with tall trees. 



In the distance the marsh only looks 

 refreshingly green, but if we draw near- 

 er we see patches of vivid coloring for 



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