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as good, since from such a spot must diverge 

 influences that keep earth alive. 



There is a singular companionship or parallelism 

 between June and October, in seasons when mild 

 weather sustains the slender manifest lives of 

 plants. It is in such a year that apples and cher 

 ries, raspberries, and other fruits blossom again ; 

 and so one need not be surprised at a pasture 

 sunny with hundreds of dandelions ; and the 

 mulleins and evening primroses send out new 

 blossom stems from the very end of the already 

 dry and seeded pods of the summer bloom. 

 Many things of June and July are now vigorously 

 blossoming, the ox-eye daisy, the tall daisy flea- 

 bane, mayweed ; then there is the queer white 

 green-ribbed Grass of Parnassus, and many vio 

 lets appear. These with the most beautiful of 

 the asters, and the wreath golden-rod, the black- 

 eyed Susans, the tansy and the Queen Anne s 

 lace, make fine bouquets. Besides, one finds the 

 fringed gentians and the closed gentians, equally 

 attractive, though so apart. &quot; There are diver 

 sities of gifts, but the same Spirit.&quot; 



Nature has her conditions, to which we must 

 conform, for if man be lord of creation, as the old 

 way of thinking and writing has it, he is a lord 

 with lords over him, lords many and gods many, 

 and all these are but Nature, the embodiment of 



