I would make a chart of our life,
know why just this circle of creatures
completes the world.
Henry Thoreau, April 18, 1852
It is but a step
from flowers to fruit – the size
of these green berries!
May 19. With what unobserved secure dispatch nature advances! The amelanchiers have bloomed, and already both kinds have shed their blossoms and show minute green fruit. There is not an instant's pause! May 19, 1854
May 30. I see now green high blueberries, and gooseberries in Hubbard's Close, as well as shad-bush berries and strawberries. May 30, 1854
June 6. The earliest blueberries are now forming as greenberries. June 6, 1852
June 7. I am surprised at the size of green berries, -- shad-bush, low blueberries, choke-cherries, etc., etc. It is but a step from flowers to fruit. June 7, 1854
June 19. Notice green berries, — blueberries and huckleberries. June 19, 1859
June 27. That tree-like cornel by the Heywood Meadow Brook, now showing green fruit, must be the alternate- leaved cornel. June 27, 1852
Alternate-leaf dogwood
July 10, 2026
July 10, 2026
July 22. The green berries of the arum are seen . . . and the round green-pea-sized green berries of the axil-flowering Solomon's-seal. July 22, 1852
July 24. The medeola is still in flower, though with large green berries . . . A spikenard just beyond the spring has already pretty large green berries, though a few flowers. July 24, 1853
August 2. I am not sure but the bunches of the smooth sumach berries are handsomest when but partly turned, the crimson contrasting with the green, the green berries showing a velvety crimson cheek. August 2, 1853
August 27. The Medeola Virginica, cucumber-root, the whorl-leaved plant, is now in green fruit. August 27, 1851
See also
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Partridge-berry (Mitchella Repens);
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Alternate-leafed dogwood (Cornus alternifolia);
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, As the Seasons Revolve
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau: Green Berries
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."
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