

V. 



.THE FLOWERS OF SUMMER 



FROM spring to summer lies be- 

 tween the fading broom and 

 the blossoming hawthorn through 

 a gateway overhung by lilac and 

 laburnum. 



Neither lilac nor laburnum is native, 

 by right of long hold of the soil, although both 

 are so closely woven in with our earliest recollections 

 of the season, that it is hard to me impossible to 

 picture it without them. If not found in our lists 

 of wild flowers, it only shows how very fine are 

 the lines that are drawn, and how strangely they 

 are made to curve in and out. Both grow so 

 freely beyond the garden walls, and wander so far 

 into the depths of the surrounding country, that 

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