The common iris in meadow in Acton.

June 13

Friday. To Worcester.

See the common iris in meadow in Acton. 

June 16, 2026

Brown shows me from his window the word “guano” written on the grass in a field near the hospital, say three quarters of a mile distant. It was one of the lions of Worcester last year, and I can now read some of the letters distinctly, so permanent are the effects of the guano. The letters may be two or more rods long, and the green is darker and more luxuriant. (On the side of a hill.)

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 13, 1856

The common iris in meadow in Acton.  See June 10, 1855 ("Iris versicolor, also a day or two."); June 10, 1858 ("Common blue flag, how long? ") See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, The Blue Flag Iris (Versicolor)

Brown. Theophilus (Theo) Brown (12 September 1811- 25 January 1879)) See Walden Woods Project (Referred to as the “literary tailor,” Theo. Brown . . .was a member of the local lyceum executive committee who, along with his friend H.G.O. Blake, brought Transcendentalist lecturers to Worcester . . . During an 1856 trip to Worcester, Thoreau spent four nights with the Browns and had his photograph taken at Benjamin Maxham’s Daguerrean Palace.")

Guano. See The Nineteenth Century Guano Trade and The Wealth of the Land

June 13. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,  June 13

Brown shows me from his 

window the word “guano” 

written on the grass.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, The common iris in meadow in Acton

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality."

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