Yellow lady’s-slipper near the Quarry.

June 18 

Hale says the tiarella grows here [Worcester], and showed it me pressed; also Kalmia glauca formerly, hobble-bush still, and yellow lady’s-slipper near the Quarry.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 18, 1856 

[On this day Thoreau had his daguerreotype taken at Benjamin Maxham’s Daguerrean Palace in Worcester. On June 21 he writes Calvin Greene: "While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype—which my friends think is pretty good—though better looking than I."]

(National Portrait Gallery)

(Thoreau Society)

Hale:  Rev. Edward Everett Hale

Hale says the tiarella [foamflower] grows here and showed it me pressed. See June 2, 1858  (Monadnock) ("Here, at the base, by the course of a rocky rill, where we paused in the shade, in moist ground, I saw the Tiarella cordifolia, abundant and apparently in prime, with its white spike sometimes a foot and more high"); September 7, 1856 (Brattleboro) ("The leaves of the Tiarella cordifolia very abundant in the woods.")

Hobble-bush still. See September 6, 1852 ( Peterboro Hills) ("In the woods near the top, the Viburnum lantanoides, hobble-bush, American wayfaring-tree, in fruit, mostly large and red, but the ripe dark blue or black like the V. nudum, –– formerly falsely callled moose-berry. Probably it does not grow in Concord"); September 8, 1856  (Brattleboro) ("The hobble-bush with its berries and large roundish leaves, now beginning to turn a deep dull crimson red. "); June 2, 1858  (Monadnock) ("The Viburnum lantanoides, apparently in prime, with its large and showy white outer florets.") See also The Outside Story.

June 18. See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, June 18

Tiarella grows here 

and yellow lady’s-slipper

near the Quarry.

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Yellow lady’s-slipper near the Quarry

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

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out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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