The low fields which have been mown now look very green.

August 4. 

Rain last night and to-day again. 

Ground nut. 

The low fields which have been mown now look very green again in consequence of the rain, as if it were a second spring. 

Aaron's-rod, not yet. 

A sicyos in front of the Vose house, not quite, but probably somewhere now.

Symphytum officinale still in bloom in front of C. Stow's, over the fence. 

Polygonum Careyi, four feet high, gigantesque, bristly-glandular, with swollen joints (poly-gonum), many branches from near ground.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 4, 1853

The low fields which have been mown now look very green again in consequence of the rain, as if it were a second spring. See July 24, 1852 ("There is a short, fresh green on the shorn fields, the aftermath. When the first crop of grass is off, and the aftermath springs, the year has passed its culmination."); July 24, 1860 ("Many a field where the grass has been cut shows now a fresh and very lit-up light green as you look toward the sun."); July 28, 1852 ("There is a yellowish light now from a low, tufted, yellowish, broad-leaved grass, in fields that have been mown."); August 7, 1852 ("At this season we have gentle rain-storms, making the aftermath green . . . as if it were a second spring."); August 10, 1854 ("As I go along the railroad, I observe the darker green of early-mown fields.");  August 17, 1858 ("The aftermath on early mown fields is a very beautiful green.."); August 21, 1851 ("Mowing to some extent improves the landscape to the eye of the walker. The aftermath, so fresh and green, begins now to recall the spring to my mind")

Polygonum Careyi, four feet high, gigantesque, bristly-glandular, with swollen joints (poly-gonum), many branches from near ground. See July 24, 1856 ("In the low Flint's Pond Path, beyond Britton's, the tall rough goldenrod makes a thicket higher than my head."); August 30, 1859 ("Now is the season of rank weeds, as Polygonum Careyi, tall rough goldenrod."); October 26, 1853 ("As I go up the back road, see fresh sprouts in bloom on a tall rough goldenrod.")