The Columbia Democrat

JUNE

Is certainly the month of flowers this year, as summer has just commenced, and warm weather been thoroughly established. The trees are in their full dress—a profusion of gay flowers are every where scattered around us—and soft copious showers are rapidly forwarding the growth of vegetation.

"Now genial suns and gentle breezes reign,
And summer's fairest splendours deck the plain:
Exulting Flora views her new-born rose,
And all the ground with short-lived beauty glows."

It is pleasant now to take recreation in the country—to enjoy the profusion of fragrance arising from the flowers of the clover and the honey-suckle. The longest day in the year, or summer-solstice, comes on the 21st of this month, when twilight continues almost from the rising to the setting of the sun. Gooseberries and currants ripen about the latter end of the month; and we can tickle our palates, and even satisfy our appetites, with the products of our gardens—provided our wives understand horticulture, and are not afraid of being sun-burnt. In fact, like the Bean season described by Thompson—

"Look let us walk
Where the breeze blows from yon extended field
Of blossom'd herbage. Arabia cannot boast
A fuller gale of joy, than, liberal, thence
Breathes through the sense, and takes the ravish'd soul."