AMERICAN JOURNAL 
or 
AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. 
CONDUCTED BY C. N. BEMENT, ALBANY. 
VOL. VII. JUNE, 1848. No. 6. 
JUNE IN PROSPECT— SUMMER. 
Spring has passed! Summer has come! " Beautiful as spring 
is," says Howitt, " and delicate and poetical her children, the 
snow-drop, the violet, the primrose, and the cowslip, we have 
seen and loved them once more, and we will no longer regret 
them. As they came and passed away amid the lingering chills 
of winter, we welcomed them, and we mourned their departure. 
No season like spring makes us so sensible by its fleeting beauties, 
of the fleeting time ; but summer is the season of full enjoyment, 
and let us now enjoy it." 
Summer may be said to be the season of growth, as spring is 
of reproduction. The organized existences, which burst into life 
in the latter season, are either brought to maturity, or at least, 
invigorated and expanded into the former, and, in both seasons, 
the peculiar character of the weather is most wisely adapted for 
the intended object. Summer is the manhood of the year. Its 
powers are developed; its vigor is fresh; its plans are matured; 
it is in the full flush of beauty, and buoyant with the joy and 
bustle of existence. Turn \^here we w^ill, there are proofs of 
operations begun and in progress, which indicate design, wisdom, 
and activity; of a past infancy and growth spent in preparation, 
and ending in settled purposes reduced to practice, and useful 
employments industriously prosecuted. 
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