IV 



June and Early July 



HEN Coleridge called this 

 " the leafy month of June " 



it seems to me that he struck 

 the note of the first summer month more 

 distinctly than our own Bryant, who wrote 

 of < ' flowery June. ' ' June is, above all 

 things, " leafy," seeming chiefly to con- 

 centrate her energies on her foliage ; for 

 although she really is not lacking in flow- 

 ers, they are almost swamped in the great 

 green flood which has swept silently but 

 irresistibly across the land. At times one 

 loses sight of them altogether, and fan-. 

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