CHAPTER V. 



THE FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE OF SUMMER. 



'QNE is hardly summer. It is the 

 threshold, as it were, over which 

 are wafted the odors of spring. All 

 spring's freshness and richness of 

 bounding vitality characterize many 

 June days, and it is not until we 

 are really launched into the full 

 glow of July that we realize what we may fairly consider 

 the genuine climate of summer. 



We have doubtless many veritable summer days in 

 June, and so we have in May, for that matter, but even in 

 June there are decided suggestions of spring still lingering 

 in the air. 



It becomes therefore very important to the lawn-planter 

 to be able to prolong as much as possible the loveliness 

 of May and June. In America, especially, he has an addi- 

 tional incentive in the fact that July and August are spent 

 largely in the open air by a people who, as a rule, do not 

 spend as much time out-of-doors as most other nations. 



