Went to Plymouth to lecture and survey Watson's grounds. Returned the 15th.
The Decodon verticillatus (swamp loosestrife) very abundant, forming isles in the pond on Town Brook on Watson's farm, now turned (methinks it was) a somewhat orange (?) scarlet.
Measured a buckthorn on land of N. Russell & Co., bounding on Watson, close by the ruins of the cotton-factory, in five places from the ground to the first branching, or as high as my head. The diameters were 4 feet 8 inches, 4-6, 4-3, 4-2, 4-6. It was full of fruit now quite ripe, which Watson plants. The birds eat it.
Saw a small goldenrod in the woods with four very broad rays, a new kind to me
Saw also the
English oak; leaf much like our white oak,
but acorns large and long, with a
long peduncle, and the bark of these
young trees, twenty or twenty-five
feet high, quite smooth.
Saw moon-seed, a climbing vine.
Also the leaf of the ginkgo tree, of pine-needles run together.
Spooner's garden a wilderness of fruit trees.
Russell is not sure but Eaton has described my rare polygonum.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 7, 1854
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