Wednesday. In Concord.
The elm leaves are falling.
The fringed gentian was out before Sunday; was (some of it) withered then, says Edith Emerson.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal. September 28, 1853
H. D. Thoreau, Journal. September 28, 1853
The elm leaves are falling. See September 28, 1857 ("Had one of those sudden cool gusts, which . . . caused the elms to labor and drop many leaves, early in afternoon. No such gust since spring.") See also September 29, 1854 ("The elm leaves have in some places more than half fallen and strew the ground with thick rustling beds"); October 1, 1858 ("The elms are now great brownish-yellow masses hanging over the street. . . .The harvest of elm leaves is come, or at hand. ")
The fringed gentian was out before Sunday. See September 13, 1858 ("Fringed gentian out well, on easternmost edge of the Painted-Cup Meadows, by wall."); September 14, 1856 ("Fringed gentian well out."); September 18, 1854 ("Fringed gentian near Peter’s out a short time, . . ., it may after all be earlier than the hazel.”); 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"); September 29, 1857 ("I hear that some have gathered fringed gentian."); October 1, 1858 ("The fringed gentians are now in prime."); 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.”) See also A Book of the Seasons by Henry Thoreau, The Fringed Gentian
Ediith Emerson
The fringed gentian was out before Sunday; was (some of it) withered then, says Edith Emerson. September 28, 1853
A-barberrying by boat to Conantum, carrying Ellen, Edith, and Eddie Journal, October 1, 1853
To Tarbell Hill again with the Emersons, a-berrying. Very few berries this year. Journal, August 7, 1855
Found a painted-cup with more yellow than usual in it, and at length Edith found one perfectly yellow") [ Lepidium campestre--. Cow cress. May 29, 1856
The Emerson children say that Aralia nudicaulis berries are good to eat. Journal, August 12, 1856
I hear that the Emerson children found ladies’-delights out yesterday. January 18, 1858
Edith Emerson has found, in the field (Merriam’s) just south of the Beck Stow pine grove, Lepidium campestre, which may have been out ten days.June 6, 1858
Edith Emerson shows me Oldenlandia purpurea var. longifolia, which she saw very abundantly in bloom on the Blue Hills (Bigelow's locality) on the 29th of June. Says she has seen the pine-sap this year in Concord. July 8, 1857
Viola ovata on bank above Lee's Cliff. Edith Emerson found them there yesterday; also columbines and the early potentilla April 13th !!! Journal, April 19, 1858
Edith Emerson has found, in the field (Merriam’s) just south of the Beck Stow pine grove, Lepidium campestre, which may have been out ten days. Journal , June 6, 1858
Edith Emerson gives me an Asclepias tuberosa from Naushon, which she thinks is now in its prime there. August 9, 1858
A year ago last spring I gave to Edith Emerson and to Sophia some clasping hound’s-tongue seeds, it being very rare hereabouts, wishing to spread it. Now and for a long time it has been a pest in the garden (it does not bloom till the second year), by its seeds clinging to our clothes. Mrs. E. has carried it to Boston thus, and I have spent twenty minutes at once in clearing myself of it. So it is in a fair way to be dispersed.Journal, September 6, 1858
E. Emerson's Calla palustris out the 27th. Journal, May 30, 1859
I hear that the Viola ovata was found the 17th and the 20th, and the bloodroot in E. Emerson's garden the 20th. Journal, April 22, 1860
To Tarbell Hill again with the Emersons, a-berrying. Very few berries this year. Journal, August 7, 1855
Found a painted-cup with more yellow than usual in it, and at length Edith found one perfectly yellow") [ Lepidium campestre--. Cow cress. May 29, 1856
The Emerson children say that Aralia nudicaulis berries are good to eat. Journal, August 12, 1856
I hear that the Emerson children found ladies’-delights out yesterday. January 18, 1858
Edith Emerson has found, in the field (Merriam’s) just south of the Beck Stow pine grove, Lepidium campestre, which may have been out ten days.June 6, 1858
Edith Emerson shows me Oldenlandia purpurea var. longifolia, which she saw very abundantly in bloom on the Blue Hills (Bigelow's locality) on the 29th of June. Says she has seen the pine-sap this year in Concord. July 8, 1857
Viola ovata on bank above Lee's Cliff. Edith Emerson found them there yesterday; also columbines and the early potentilla April 13th !!! Journal, April 19, 1858
Edith Emerson has found, in the field (Merriam’s) just south of the Beck Stow pine grove, Lepidium campestre, which may have been out ten days. Journal , June 6, 1858
Edith Emerson gives me an Asclepias tuberosa from Naushon, which she thinks is now in its prime there. August 9, 1858
A year ago last spring I gave to Edith Emerson and to Sophia some clasping hound’s-tongue seeds, it being very rare hereabouts, wishing to spread it. Now and for a long time it has been a pest in the garden (it does not bloom till the second year), by its seeds clinging to our clothes. Mrs. E. has carried it to Boston thus, and I have spent twenty minutes at once in clearing myself of it. So it is in a fair way to be dispersed.Journal, September 6, 1858
E. Emerson's Calla palustris out the 27th. Journal, May 30, 1859
I hear that the Viola ovata was found the 17th and the 20th, and the bloodroot in E. Emerson's garden the 20th. Journal, April 22, 1860
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