May 25. The ferns are grown up large, and some are in fruit, a dark or blackish fruit part way down the stem, with a strong scent, --quite a rich-looking fruit, of small dark-greenish globules clustered together.
The female red maples bearing keys are later to put forth leaves. The catkins of the willows on the Turnpike, now fallen, cover the water. The water has subsided so that the pads lie on the surface.
The chinquapin shrub oak is blossoming. The pincushion galls appear on the oak. The oak apples are forming. The veronica is everywhere in bloom, in the grass by the roadside.
It is blossom week with the apples.
The shad-blossoms are gone. The sarsaparilla in bloom; and trientalis, its white star. What a sunny yellow in the early cinquefoil, which now spots the grass!
The red oak sprouts have grown ten inches before their leaves are expanded. Some late willows have fresh green catkins now. Clustered Solomon's-seal. Polygonatum pubescens ready to bloom. Medeola or cucumber-root in bud, with its two-storied whorl of leaves.
Mosquitoes have come. Cress in flower. The veratrums by this brook have run up so high they make a tropical scenery on the edge of the water. Yellow butterflies one at a time. The large yellow woods violet (V. pubescens) by this brook now out.
The Rana palustris, or pickerel frog, is abundant in the meadows. I hear the first troonk of a bullfrog. The fringed polygala (P. paucifolia), flowering wintergreen. Grasshoppers appear.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 25, 1852
It is blossom week with the apples. See May 19, 1860 ("There is a stong southwest wind after the rain, rather novel and agreeable, blowing off some apple blossoms.”); May 20, 1854 ("Methinks we always have at this time those washing winds as now, when the choke-berry is in bloom, — bright and breezy days blowing off some apple blossoms”); May 26, 1852 (“The air is full of the odor of apple blossoms.”); May 27 1852 ("The road is white with the apple blossoms fallen off, as with snowflakes.”); May 27, 1857 ("This is blossom week, beginning last Sunday (the 24th).”);May 28, 1855 (“The apple bloom is very rich now.”); June 1, 1855 ("A very windy day, . . . scattering the remaining apple blossoms.”)
Clustered Solomon's-seal. Polygonatum pubescens ready to bloom. See May 22, 1856 (“Polygonatum pubescens at rock.”); May 21, 1856 ("The Polygonatum pubescens there, in shade, almost out; perhaps elsewhere already.”) May 13, 1855 (" The brook in Yellow Birch Swamp is very handsome now — broad and full, with the light-green hellebore eighteen inches high and the small two-leaved Solomon’s-seal about it, in the open wood.”); May 12, 1855 ("One flower of the Polygonatum pubescent open there [under Lee’s Cliff]; probably may shed pollen to-morrow.”).
The red oak sprouts have grown ten inches before their leaves are expanded. Some late willows have fresh green catkins now. Clustered Solomon's-seal. Polygonatum pubescens ready to bloom. Medeola or cucumber-root in bud, with its two-storied whorl of leaves.
Mosquitoes have come. Cress in flower. The veratrums by this brook have run up so high they make a tropical scenery on the edge of the water. Yellow butterflies one at a time. The large yellow woods violet (V. pubescens) by this brook now out.
The Rana palustris, or pickerel frog, is abundant in the meadows. I hear the first troonk of a bullfrog. The fringed polygala (P. paucifolia), flowering wintergreen. Grasshoppers appear.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 25, 1852
It is blossom week with the apples. See May 19, 1860 ("There is a stong southwest wind after the rain, rather novel and agreeable, blowing off some apple blossoms.”); May 20, 1854 ("Methinks we always have at this time those washing winds as now, when the choke-berry is in bloom, — bright and breezy days blowing off some apple blossoms”); May 26, 1852 (“The air is full of the odor of apple blossoms.”); May 27 1852 ("The road is white with the apple blossoms fallen off, as with snowflakes.”); May 27, 1857 ("This is blossom week, beginning last Sunday (the 24th).”);May 28, 1855 (“The apple bloom is very rich now.”); June 1, 1855 ("A very windy day, . . . scattering the remaining apple blossoms.”)
Clustered Solomon's-seal. Polygonatum pubescens ready to bloom. See May 22, 1856 (“Polygonatum pubescens at rock.”); May 21, 1856 ("The Polygonatum pubescens there, in shade, almost out; perhaps elsewhere already.”) May 13, 1855 (" The brook in Yellow Birch Swamp is very handsome now — broad and full, with the light-green hellebore eighteen inches high and the small two-leaved Solomon’s-seal about it, in the open wood.”); May 12, 1855 ("One flower of the Polygonatum pubescent open there [under Lee’s Cliff]; probably may shed pollen to-morrow.”).
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