Viburnum nudum in flower again.
I see the potatoes all black with frosts that have occurred within a night or two in Moore’s Swamp.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 18, 1854
The fringed gentian. See October 19, 1852 ("It is a very singular and agreeable surprise to come upon this conspicuous and handsome and withal blue flower at this season, when flowers have passed out of our minds and memories; the latest of all to begin to bloom.")
Fringed gentian. . .may after all be earlier than the hazel. See September 18, 1856 ("The gentian is now far more generally out here than the hazel."); September 18, 1859 ("From the observation of this year I should say that the fringed gentian opened before the witch-hazel,. . .”); October 2, 1853 ("The gentian in Hubbard's Close is frost-bitten extensively. As the witch-hazel is raised above frost and can afford to be later, for this reason also I think it is so.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau: The Fringed Gentian
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