Summer's glow is in the air, and the 
leaves are unfolding and expanding 
with easy freedom* Cramped and 
confined so long in the inert winter 
buds, they enter into the joy of the season, and 
spread out, in rich, restful profusion, their many 
shades of tender green* The open tracery of a 
week ago that revealed the passing clouds or the 
outlines of roofs and chimneys is filled in with 
myriad dots of growing green that make the 
trees assume their characteristic outlines* The 
unfolding of flowers on the branches overhead 
prolongs the atmosphere of spring* The Sycamore 
Maple is now covered with clusters of blossoms, filling 
and rounding off its outlines so completely that it 
seems to be in perfect leaf* But the leaves are more 
backward, just unfolding their diminutive forms 
from the elongated scales of the buds that enclosed 
them with the flowers throughout the winter* These 
yellow-green clusters are now fulfilling their fruitful 
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