CHAPTER XXIV. 

 MONTHLY CALENDAR. 



§ 1. — Aspect of the Month. 



1 156. The leafy month of roses, during 

 which the oak, the elm, and other ''green- 

 robed senators of mighty woods," are clothed 

 m all the beauty of their summer array, while 

 the honeysuckle, with its streaked, spider-like 

 flowers of white, red, and yellow, and the 

 flagrant wild-rose, flaunt their blossom from a 

 thousand hedgerows, and mingle with the pale 

 golden flowers of the woodbine and the droop- 

 ing crimson blossoms of the foxglove, lighting 

 up with their brilliancy the green masses of 

 the underwood. 



" Under the oak, whose antique roots peep out 

 Upon the brook that brawls along the wood." 



Summer has now fairly thrown open her doors 

 of green, the whole landscape is at last fringed 

 with foliage, the fields are ancle-deep in flowers ; 



■wild flowers are indeed too plentiful to be named here. The garden also is in. 



full bloom— roses of a hundred hues, the fragrant honeysuckle and jasmine,, 



load the air with their perfume. 



*• Now broad carnations, and gay spotted pinks, 

 And showered from every bush, the damask rose. 

 Infinite in numbers, delicacies, scents, 

 With hues on hues, expression cannot paint I '* 



