just got out a few minutes before the rising You see the fields and woods, that lay the in obscurity, attiring themselves in beauty ; you sec a profusion of brilliants shining s you see the stream gradually admitting o its pure bosom; and you hear the birds, vakened by a rapture that comes upon he morning. If the eastern sky be clear, glow with the promise of a flame that has eared; and if it be overcast with clouds, ose clouds stained by a bright red, borgold or silver, that by the changes appear ad ready to vanish. How various and are those appearances, which are not the ne distant effects of it, over different obad, Bishop Jeremy Taylor, who, unlike stian Observers' of the day, did not disLook through Nature up to Nature's God,' arks, in describing a sun-rise:- As when proaches towards the gates of the morning, ens a little eye of heaven, and sends away of darkness; gives light to the cock, and he lark to matins; and by and by, gilds the a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, out his golden horns***; and still (while Is the story) the sun gets up higher till he fair face and a full light.'-(Holy Dying.) owers which blossomed in the last month ture their seeds, and hasten to decay. A succeeds, which demands all the fervid rays titial sun to bring it to perfection. Summer said to commence with this month: the s begin to whiten, and the flowers that adorn e mowed down. The corn gradually assumes hue, and the colours that decorate the rural are no longer so numerous. Corn-cockle emma githago) is in flower, and reminds the to pull it from among his crop of wheat, lest his sample and deteriorate the bread.

summer advances, the vocal music of the

groves is lessened, and in this month may be said to cease altogether-if we except the chirping of the wren and two or three small birds.

Towards the middle of the month, the spiked willow (spirea salicifolia), jessamine (jasminum officinale), hyssop (hyssopus officinalis), the bell-flower (campanula), and the white lily, have their flowers full blown. The wayfaring tree, or guelder rose, begins to enrich the hedges with its bright red berries, which in time turn black. The Virginian sumach (rhus typhinum) now exhibits its scarlet tufts of flowers upon its bright green circles of leaves. The berries of the mountain ash turn red. The lavender (lavendula spica) is in flower, and affords its perfumes, whether in a fresh state, or dried, or distilled with spirits of wine. In this, and the following month, the purple loosestrife (lythrum salicaria) ornaments the sides of ponds and brooks, and, by its tall spike of blue flowers, gives a rich appearance to the cooling retreats of river banks. It is intermixed with the meadowsweet (spiraa ulmaria), the spicy fragrance of which scents the surrounding air.

The Sun the early morn doth greet,
The dew begenis the ground,

The flowers with fragrant odours meet,
And perfume all around.

So enters Man life's giddy maze,
Fearless of future harms;
Pleasure her wily path displays,
And lures him by her charms.

The Sun pursues his eager flight,
The dew-drops soon are fled,
Each flower, obedient to the light,
Bends low its drooping head.

So thoughtless man, his hopes to win,
In Pleasure's labyrinth strays,

Till disappointment rushes in,
And blights his future days.

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ateurs of tulips are now rewarded for all and pains, by the splendid show this flower hen seen in beds, exhibiting the richest and utiful colours that the imagination can Through accident, weakness, or disease, s acquire so many tints, variegations, and s the tulip. Thomson notices the tulip, minute elegance which is the leading feature scriptive abilities:avold hit aro

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When from the goblet's eastern brim shall rise
The gladd'ning sun-beams of our sparkling wine;

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Shall on her cheek's empurpled garden shine.

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Towards the end of the month, the flowers of the laurustinus (viburnum tinus), and the burdock (arctium lappa), begin to open; and the elecampane (inula helenium), the amaranth (amaranthus caudatus), the great water plantain (alisma plantago), and water mint (mentha aquatica), have their flowers full blown. The mezereon (daphne mezereon), which in January cheered the eye with its rods of purple flowers without leaves, and regaled the smell, now displays its scarlet berries through its bright green leaves.

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t, hatched in the spring, are now in full and the sounds which they utter take place sic of birds: gnats and flies buzz around us, rasshopper chirps his merry note. Flying their nests, and the dew moth and butterfly ir appearance. See T. T. for 1820, p. 204. ery rare and beautiful bird, called the crosscurvi-rostra), was seen in August 1821, at Iton, Shropshire, in a flight of about eighventy. It alighted on the tops of pine-trees ; the cone of which it opens with adroit holding it in one claw, like a parrot, and ut the seed. They are of various colours, reen, yellow, and crimson; and some enthe most lovely rose-colour; hanging and in fanciful attitudes, and much resembling of small paroquets. Their unusual note cts attention, somewhat like the quick chirp s, but much louder. The observer has repportunities of viewing them with the greatest and advantage, by means of a small teleThey also eat excrescent knobs, or the herein formed by the cynips, at the ends of g spruce branches. These birds are natives any and the Pyrenees, and are very rarely England. It was observed, with the greatest n, that the same mandible of the bill crossed right side in some birds, and on the left in

na now offers her fruits to allay the parching currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawcherries, and cranberries, are all peculiarly ng at this season'. But what is the thirst e, in this temperate climate, designate parchmpared with that experienced by the wayveller on the burning sands of Egypt?-there, such countries only, is the value of a draught