Summer's glow is in the air, and the 

 leaves are unfolding and expanding 

 with easy freedom. Cramped and 

 confined so long in the inert winter 

 buds, they enter into the joy of the season, and 

 spread out, in rich, restful profusion, their many 

 shades of tender green. The open tracery of a 

 week ago that revealed the passing clouds or the 

 outlines of roofs and chimneys is filled in with 

 myriad dots of growing green that make the 

 trees assume their characteristic outlines. The 

 unfolding of flowers on the branches overhead 

 prolongs the atmosphere of spring. The Sycamore 

 Maple is now covered with clusters of blossoms, filling 

 and rounding off its outlines so completely that it 

 seems to be in perfect leaf. But the leaves are more 

 backward, just unfolding their diminutive forms 

 from the elongated scales of the buds that enclosed 

 them with the flowers throughout the winter. These 

 yellow-green clusters are now fulfilling their fruitful 



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