LETTER XXVIII. 
MAY. 
While the rofy-footed May 
Steals blujhing on, together let us tread 
*The morning dews, and gather in their prime 
Frejh-blooming flowers. 
TH E firft, among the objefts of Cra- 
our purfuit, that catches your te * w * 
eye, is that beautifully whitening hedge. 
*The Hawthorn whitens, and the juicy groves 
Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees, 
T/7/ the whole leafy foreft Jlands difplay'd. 
The fight of the Hawthorn brought thefe 
lines to my memory. I do not repeat them 
for their beauty : Juicy is a vile epithet ap- 
plied to groves, and the lines are very profaic. 
Examine one of the flowers, and you will 
find in it about 20 ftamina, which, with 
the petals, are fixed, not to a receptaculum, 
but to the infide of the calyx: you know it 
therefore to be of the Clafs Icofandria, and 
the two ftyles tell you the Order. But thefe 
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