An old pitch pine stump at Tommy Wheeler's hollow.

November 6. 

Sawed off half of an old pitch pine stump at Tommy Wheeler's hollow. I found that, though the surface was entire and apparently sound except one or two small worm-holes, and the sap was evidently decaying, yet within or just under the surface, it was extensively hơneycombed by worms, which did not eat out to the surface. Those rings included in the outmost four or five inches were the most decayed  — including the sap wood.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 6, 1860

An old pitch pine stump. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Pitch Pine.