Blueberries pretty numerously ripe on Fair Haven.

June 27.

June 27, 2014

Blueberries pretty numerously ripe on Fair Haven. 

P. Hutchinson says that he can remember when haymakers from Sudbury, thirty or forty years ago, used to come down the river in numbers and unite with Concord to clear the weeds out of the river in shallow places and the larger streams emptying in. 

H. D Thoreau, Journal, June 27, 1854


Blueberries pretty numerously ripe on Fair Haven. Compare July 6, 1851 ("Already I gather ripe blueberries on the hills."); July 26, 1854 ("Almost every bush now offers a wholesome and palatable diet to the wayfarer, — large and dense clusters of Vaccinium vacillans, largest in most moist ground, sprinkled with the red ones not ripe; great high blueberries, some nearly as big as cranberries, of an agreeable acid; huckleberries of various kinds, some shining black, some dull-black, some blue; and low blackberries of two or more varieties")