A very hot day

JULY 4, 2019

July 4. 

A sultry night the last; bear no covering; all windows open. 

8 a. m. — To Framingham. 

Great orange-yellow lily, some days, wild yellow lily, drooping, well out. 

Asclepias obtusifolia, also day or two. 

Some chestnut trees show at distance as if blossoming. 

Buckwheat, how long ? I probably saw 

Asclepias purpurascens (??) over the walls. 

A very hot day.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 4, 1854

To Framingham. See June 11, 1854 ("To Framingham with Mrs. Brown.")

Asclepias obtusifolia, also day or two. See June 29, 1853 ("Asclepias obtusifolia, a day or two.");  September 21, 1856 ("The Asclepias obtusifolia . . . A fairy-like casket, shaped like a canoe, with its closely packed imbricated brown seeds, with their yet compressed silvery parachutes like finest unsoiled silk in the right position above them, ready to be wafted some dry and breezy day to their destined places.”)

Some chestnut trees show at distance as if blossoming. See July 14, 1860 ("Perceive now the light-colored tops of chestnuts in bloom, and, when I come near them, an offensive, sickening odor, somewhat like that of the barberry blossoms, but worse.")

A very hot day. See July 3, 1854 ("It is gloriously hot, — the first of this weather.")