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A JUNE LANDSCAPE FROM FAIR 

 HAVEN HILL 



June 30, 1860. Generally speaking, the fields are . 

 not imbrowned yet, but the freshness of the year is 

 preserved. Standing on the side of Fair Haven Hjll 

 the verdure generally appears at its height, the air 

 clear, and the water sparkling (after the rain of yes- 

 terday), and it is a world of glossy leaves and grassy 

 fields and meads. 



Seen through this clear, sparkling, breezy air, the 

 fields, woods, and meadows are very brilliant and 

 fair. The leaves are now hard and glossy (the oldest), 

 yet still comparatively fresh, and I do not see a single 

 acre of grass that has been cut yet. The river mead- 

 ows on each side the stream, looking toward the 

 light, have an elysian beauty. A light-yellow plush 

 or velvet, as if some gamboge had been rubbed into 

 them. They are by far the most bright and sunny- 

 looking spots, such is the color of the sedges which 

 grow there, while the pastures and hillsides are dark- 

 green and the grain-fields glaucous-green. 



Journal, xiii, 380. 



WHITE CLOVER 



June 29, 1851. There is a great deal of white 

 clover this year. In many fields where there has 

 been no clover seed sown for many years at least, 



