The chestnuts on Pine Hill in blossom.

July 19.


P. M.--R. W. E.'s cliff.


Phytolacca decandra, poke, in blossom.

The Cerasus pumila ripe.

The chestnuts on Pine Hill being in blossom reveals the rounded tops of the trees; separates them, and makes a richer and more varied scene.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 19, 1852

The Cerasus pumila ripe. See July 28, 1856 ("Sand cherry ripe. The fruit droops in umble-like clusters, two to four peduncles together, on each side the axil of a branchlet or a leaf.") See also May 22, 1855 ("Cerasus pumila in full bloom.")

The chestnuts on Pine Hill being in blossom. See July 14, 1860 ("Perceive now the light-colored tops of chestnuts in bloom.") See also October 19, 1855 ("To Pine Hill for chestnuts."); October 20, 1852 (“Picking chestnuts on Pine Hill."); October 22, 1852 ("Looking over the forest on Pine Hill, I can hardly tell which trees are lit up by the sunshine and which are the yellow chestnut-tops."); October 22, 1857("Chestnut trees are almost bare. Now is just the time for chestnuts."); October 23, 1855 ("Now is the time for chestnuts. A stone cast against the trees shakes them down in showers upon one’s head and shoulders."); October 24, 1857 ("I hear the dull thump of heavy stones against the trees from far through the rustling wood, where boys are ranging for nuts. ")