Fringed gentian near Peter’s out a short time, but as there is so little, and that has been cut off by the mowers, and this is not the leading stem that blooms, it may after all be earlier than the hazel. 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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