Collecting the Little Auk II

November 19.

My rule of small white pines under pitch pines is so true of E. Hoar's land that he very easily got a hundred white pines there to set by his house. 

Mr. Bradshaw says that he got a little auk in Wayland last week, and heard of two more, one in Weston and the other in Natick. Thinks they came with the storm of the 10th and 11th.

He tells me of a small oak wood of old trees called More's, half a mile east of Wayland, behind the grave-yard.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 19, 1860

My rule of small white pines under pitch pines. See note to  November 13, 1860 ("J. Baker’s pitch pines south of upper wood-path north of his house abundantly confirm the rule of young white pines under pitch pines. That fine young white pine wood west of this is partly of these which were left when the pitch pines were cut.")

they came with the storm . See July 25, 1860 ("Nuttall says its appearance here is always solitary; driven here by stress of weather ”)

More’s oak wood. See also October 20, 1860 ("I examine Ebby Hubbard's old oak and pine wood. The trees may be a hundred years old.”); November 2, 1860 ("Wetherbee's oak wood ... The trees would average probably between a hundred and fifty and two hundred years. Such a wood has got to be very rare in this neighborhood.”); November 5, 1860 (Blood's oak lot.. . .This wood is a hundred to a hundred and sixty years old.); ( November 10, 1860 ("Inches Wood . . .as fine an oak wood as there is in New England.").