August 11.
To Contantum.
The mountain-ash berries are turning. We had a ripe watermelon on the 7th. I see the great yellow flowers of the squash amid the potatoes in the garden, one of the largest yellow flowers we have. How fat and rich! Of course it is long since they blossomed. Green corn begins.
The autumnal ring of the alder locust. White lilies are not very numerous now.
The skunk-cabbage leaves are fallen and decaying, and their fruit is black. Their fall is earlier than that of other plants.
I am attracted by the clear dark-green leaves of the fever-bush. The rum cherry is ripe.
The Collinsonia Canadensis just begun. The great trumpet-weeds now fairly out. Sumach berries now generally red. Some naked viburnum berries are red. The sweet viburnum turning.
The larger skull-cap is quite an important and interesting flower.
Platanthera blephariglottis, white fringed orchis.
This side of Hubbard's Meadow Bridge, Lespedeza hirta (hairy), Cannabis sativa, apparently out.
Aster corymbosus, path beyond Corner Spring and in Miles Swamp.
To Contantum.
The mountain-ash berries are turning. We had a ripe watermelon on the 7th. I see the great yellow flowers of the squash amid the potatoes in the garden, one of the largest yellow flowers we have. How fat and rich! Of course it is long since they blossomed. Green corn begins.
The autumnal ring of the alder locust. White lilies are not very numerous now.
The skunk-cabbage leaves are fallen and decaying, and their fruit is black. Their fall is earlier than that of other plants.
I am attracted by the clear dark-green leaves of the fever-bush. The rum cherry is ripe.
The Collinsonia Canadensis just begun. The great trumpet-weeds now fairly out. Sumach berries now generally red. Some naked viburnum berries are red. The sweet viburnum turning.
The larger skull-cap is quite an important and interesting flower.
Platanthera blephariglottis, white fringed orchis.
This side of Hubbard's Meadow Bridge, Lespedeza hirta (hairy), Cannabis sativa, apparently out.
Aster corymbosus, path beyond Corner Spring and in Miles Swamp.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 11, 1852
Cannabis sativa, apparently out. See August 4, 1854 ("Cannabis sativa")
Aster corymbosus, path beyond Corner Spring and in Miles Swamp. See August 9, 1856 ("What I have called Aster corymbosus out a day, above Hemlocks. . . .")
August 11. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, August 11
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau"A book, each page written in its own season,out-of-doors, in its own locality.”~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2021
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