88 Walks in New England 



In Mid-May 



THE swift advances of the summer are 

 depriving us of the tender, delicate, gra 

 cious qualities of the spring. Too sud 

 denly, if not too soon, the full greens of the sum 

 mer are beginning to shade our streets, and those 

 tentative tints of the trees are overtaken and over 

 borne by the full chlorophyll rushing from the 

 earth and drinking in the vapours of the sky. 

 Earth is in haste to be ready for June. The ap 

 ple trees are blossoming, it is the apple year ; 

 the pears are coming out, the cherries of cultiva 

 tion are going by, but the wild cherries are all in 

 great beauty; the shadblow has shed its light 

 some petals, and now the lilacs are full of fra 

 grance and charm. And a little way out of the 

 city, where the forest remnants exist, where the 

 snow lingered longer and the frosts were slower 

 in loosing hold, the red and sugar maples are now 

 in beautiful bloom, the poplars in their several 

 fellowships are harmonizing the woodland, and 

 the great family of the oaks are adding richer 



