June 28.

“When they began to cut the hay, the grass was in full bloom, and the marshes a field of cloth of gold, all yellow with crow’s-foot, and the marsh-walls white with hawthorn, a beautiful scheme of decoration characteristic of marshland at the beginning of summer- indeed, the face of the earth is a blaze of colour; but this aspect is so evanescent that painters are unable to seize its fleeting beauty. . . .”⎯On English Lagoons, p. 247

Sheep graze on a Broadland marsh. This plate appears opposite the start of Chapter XL: June on the Marshes.