CHAPTER IV. 



TREES AND SHRUBS FOR JUNE EFFECTS ON 

 THE LAWN. 



'OUBTLESS the poet, in dwelling on 

 the lovely prime of summer days that 

 comes in June, saw through his mind's 

 eye several component parts that 

 made up the charming whole. There 

 is one part, however, that forms so 

 large an element of the fairest scenes 

 of a June day that I shall venture to dwell exclusively on 

 this most interesting feature of their beauty. 



Sky and clouds and sunlight and the songs of birds 

 would offer their delights to the eye with half their bounty, 

 if vegetation, i.e., grass and trees and shrubs, were absent. 

 Even the odor of bursting bloom is not only necessary to 

 the fullest effect, but we would feel that an important ele- 

 ment had been lost if we should miss the scent of summer 

 flowers. More than at any other- season of the year, does 

 the pleasure of odorous bloom characterize the early days of 

 summer, and the number of plants that possess this charm 

 in June we shall find by no means small. 



