JUNE SHOWERS.
Did ever rain do more certain good than the thunder• showers of a more than usually gentle sort ? In the Home Counties a number of newly afforested trees, that had been dying of drought, were instantly revived. Both corn and- grass leapt forward, thanks to satisfying showers on a warm soil. The rain came just in time, though earlier would have been better, to "plump the fruit," as both poets and country people say. In our gardens annual seeds that had failed to germinate, developed seed-leaves almost miraculously. We never know, in our surprising island (which, as Lord Steyne said of Becky Sharp, at worst never bores one), what season is good or bad till it is over ; but the farms at least promise well ; and perhaps the most critical moment is the present,
W, BEACH THOMAS,
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