The sugar maple keys (or buds?) hang down one inch.

May 1. 

May 1, 2020

Plant potatoes; the very midst of early potato planting.

I now, as usual, turn up numerous yellow dor-bugs, which are as yet a very pale yellow, not having been exposed to the light. Also those great white potato worms. 

The sugar maple keys (or buds?) hang down one inch, quite. 

Ed. Emerson's snails (the simplest kind) spawned March 28. I see young now as big as the head of a pin. The stones in his aquarium are covered with very minute green polypuses, some of them budded. We The incipient ones are like a fine forest. You can only see them against a strong light. 

H. D Thoreau, Journal, May 1, 1860

I now, as usual, turn up numerous yellow dor-bugs. See April 6, 1857 ("Areoda lanigera is apparently the common yellow dor-bug.")

Also those great white potato worms. See May 5, 1857 ("Have dug up in the garden this season half a dozen of those great leather-colored pupae (with the tongue-case bent round to breast like a long urn-handle) of the sphinx moth. First potato-worm.")

The sugar maple keys (or buds?) hang down one inch, quite. See May 6, 1860 ("Maple keys an inch and a half long."); May 10, 1852 ("Are those the young keys of sugar maples that I see?"); June 2, 1856 ("White maple keys conspicuous.”)