R. W. E.’s pines are parti-colored, preparing to fall, some of them.
September 28, 2014
The sassafras trees on the hill are now wholly a bright orange scarlet as seen from my window, and the small ones elsewhere are also changed.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 28, 1854
R. W. E.’s pines are parti-colored, preparing to fall. See September 28, 1851 ("The white pines in Hubbard's Grove have now a pretty distinct parti-colored look, — green and yellow mottled."); See also September 29, 1857 ("Pines have begun to be parti-colored with yellow leaves."); October 1, 1857 ("The pines now half turned yellow, the needles of this year are so much the greener by contrast."); October 3, 1852 ("The pine fall, i.e. change, is commenced, and the trees are mottled green and yellowish."); October 3, 1856 ("The white pines are now getting to be pretty generally parti-colored, the lower yellowing needles ready to fall.")and ```````` also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Pine Fall
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