AMERICAN JOURNAL 
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AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. 
CONDUCTED BY C. N. BEMENT, ALBANY. 
VOL. VII. MAY, 1848. No. 5. 
MAY IN PROSPECT. 
It is once more May. Once more Nature has opened her house 
to all her guests. She hangs forth her richest draperies; all na- 
ture is alive and blooming. The earth is covered with flourish- 
ing trees, shrubs, vegetables and grass, and the ground is covered 
"with myriads of flowers. Every thing is fresh and gay, and 
creation is adorned in its most beautiful robe. The soft breezes 
diffuse most delicate odors; and the sun looks down upon the 
earth, and bids the lowest creatures awake fi-om their lone: slum- 
bers, and come forth to the festival of May. The blossom of the 
fruit tree is as delightful to the eye, as the fruit of autumn is to 
the taste. And many a shrub and tree has no fruit but its ex- 
panding flower to bestow. 
There is no other month in the year, so universally hailed as 
the harbinger of joy, as is the month of May. It seems, in our 
famed land, to be the general jubilee of nature; the season when 
the groves and fields again put on their gay, green liveries; 
and animal existence every where rejoices in that all-pervading 
influence which manifests itself through the whole chain of creat- 
ed beings. 
To persons of great sensibility and of lively imagination, this 
is the most pleasant month in the year. The bud of April has 
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