Hemlocks are about at height of their beauty, with their fresh growth.

June 11. 

P. M. — To Owl Swamp. 

Lambkill flower. 

Carrion-flower up a day or two. 

Panicum latifolium (not out) grows by riverside at Dakin's Brook. 

Ferns generally were killed by the frost of last month, e. g. brakes, cinnamon fern, flowering and sensitive ferns, and no doubt others. I smell the strong sour scent of their decaying. 

Galium triflorum, how long? 

In one grove pitch pine shoots are from seven to nine tenths as long as last year's growth. 

When I return, about 5 p. m., the shad-flies swarm over the river in considerable numbers, but there are very few at sundown.

Hemlocks are about at height of their beauty, with their fresh growth.





H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 11, 1859

Lambkill flower. See June 13, 1852 ("Lambkill is out. I remember with what delight I used to discover this flower in dewy mornings.All things in this world must be seen with the morning dew on them, must be seen with youthful, early-opened, hopeful eyes.");June 13, 1854 ("How beautiful the solid cylinders of the lamb-kill now just before sunset, — small ten-sided, rosy-crimson basins, about two inches above the recurved, drooping dry capsules of last year, — and sometimes those of the year before are two inches lower.");  June 25, 1852 ("Sometimes the lambkill flowers form a very even rounded, close cylinder, six inches long and two and a half in diameter, of rich red saucer-like flowers, the counterpart of the latifolia in flowers and flower- buds, but higher colored. I regard it as a beautiful flower neglected. It has a slight but not remarkable scent") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Lambkill (Kalmia augustifolia)

Panicum latifolium (not out) grows by riverside at Dakin's Brook. See June 25, 1858 ("Just south the wall at Bittern Cliff, the Panicum latifolium, hardly yet, with some leaves almost an inch and a half wide.")

Hemlocks are about at height of their beauty, with their fresh growth. See June 5, 1853 ("The fresh light green shoots of the hemlocks have now grown half an inch or an inch, spotting the trees, contrasting with the dark green of last year's foliage. ")