The ripe Canada plum

August 16.

AUGUST 16, 2020

2 P. M. — River about ten and a half inches above summer level. 

Apparently the Canada plum began to be ripe about the 10th.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 16, 1860

River about ten and a half inches above summer level. See August 2, 1860 ("At 2 P. M. the river is twelve and seven eighths above summer level, higher than for a long time, on account of the rain of the 31st.");August 12, 1860 ("River at 5 P. M. three and three quarters inches below summer level."); August 22, 1860 ("The river is fifteen and three quarters inches above summer level ."); September 1 1860 ("River about eight inches above summer level yesterday .")

August 16. See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau,  August 16

 

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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