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CHAPTER VI. 



JUNE. 



IN this variable climate, June may generally claim with 

 more justice those honours which the poets have accorded 

 to May, and may well be considered the loveliest month of 

 the year; the weather is less capricious, the trees are in 

 their freshest robes, a profusion of the sweetest flowers is 

 scattered over the ground, and numberless insects are called 

 into being by the increasing heat, affording a never-fail- 

 ing source of amusement and instruction to the naturalist. 

 The young student must now lose no opportunity of in- 

 creasing his collection, and adding to the knowledge he 

 may have already acquired of the habits and forms of the 

 insect world: every advance in this knowledge will prove 

 an increase of pure and lasting pleasure, from the tendency 



