Thoreau Manuscript, Berg Collection, "Notes on Fruits" folder, Accession Number 277-279

Thoreau Manuscript, Berg Collection, “Notes on Fruits” folder, Accession Number 277-279

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[XX]     Button bush—Sep 30

[XX]     Sep 27-60 the balls are hardly reddened.

[XX]     Sep 30-" they were fairly reddened yesterday—by the frosts.

[XX]     Oct 12-58— The balls stand out (on the 2/3 bare bushes) have ruddy or brown

[XX] look, much blacker against the light—than a month ago. [XX] Arbor Vitae Oct 1’

[XX] Oct 4-60—say 1st

[XX]     Sugar maple Oct 1st—

[XX]     ’60 was turned brown (at last (in some measure)

[XX]     Oct 8-60 Are now browned—the seed end as well as wing—the severe frosts about

[XX]     by the severe frosts of Oct 1st— ripened them Oct 1

[XX]     Oct 25-60 It still holds on where most

[XX]     of the leaves on this small tree have fallen.

[XX]     See ap. immature abortive ones falling

[XX]     June 19-60—

[XX]     Hibiscus Oct 1st

[XX]     Oct 4-56 Gone to seed & pods open

[XX]     showing the seed.

[XX]     Nov 22d XXX go husking a week ago

[XX]     though a little corn is still left in the

[XX]     XXX V C.P B 2 p 174 field

[XX]     Corn Oct 1st

[XX]     V. back Sep. 1’ put there— V Oct 7—& Sep 18-60

[XX]     C. Florida Oct 1st

[XX]     at Amboy—conspicuous with its scarlet berries fed on by robins—

[XX]     amid its scarlet XXX Oct 27-56

[XX]     Quince Oct 1st

[XX]     in 60

[XX]     Ours not so early— gathered about Oct 20"

[XX]     Oct 12-59 see them commonly left out yet—

[XX]     though apples are gathered. Prob. their gowny coats

[XX]     defend them.

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[XX]     Their fragrance is the best part of them

[XX]     & for this they may be worth raising—to scent

[XX]     your chamber—

[XX]     Pliny says "They drag down the bent

[XX]     branches, & prevent the parent from increasing."

[XX]     Also that they were shut up in the ante-

[XX]     chambers of the ~~grape~~ gnat & hung upon

[XX]     the statues of the gods in their chambers—

[XX]     (prob. for their fragrance) This was better

[XX]     than putting them directly into a preserve pot.

[XX]     Bidens ticks Oct 2d

~~[XX]     Oct 2—~~ Nov- 10-57—at Perth Amboy

[XX]     I XXX to get my clothes covered with beggar

[XX]     ticks in the fields there—& with burrs

[XX]     small & large.

[XX]     Hemlock Oct 5—

[XX]     Mar 6-53 The hemlock cones have shed their

[XX]     seeds—but there are some closed yet on

[XX]     the ground.

[XX]     Oct 31st 53— The seeds are ap. ready to

[XX]     drop from their cones. The cones are mostly

[XX]     open.

[XX]     Oct 15-56 great part of the seeds fallen

[XX]     Sep 6-60 see no new cones, but many old—

[XX]     Ap. there were so many last year that there are

[XX]     none this— The cone has 5 rays like wht

[XX]     pine—but little twisted.

[XX]     Black Spruce Oct 5

[XX]     May 31-57 spruce cones though XXX XXX at

[XX]     length will turn down

[XX]     Nov 20-57 see where squirrels, apparently, have

[XX]     eaten & stripped the spruce cones. ’60 Oct 28 see no cones as yet

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[XX]     Larch Oct 5—

[XX]     This—like the hemlock—has so many

[XX]     cones last year—that I have not seen one

[XX]     this year—(Oct 28-60)

[XX]     It has 5— rays like the wht a. cone.

[XX]     Michaux says on some "the cones are

[XX]     violet colored instead of green."

[XX]     Celtis Oct 5

[XX]     Sep 4-53— green

[XX]     Sep. 22-54 beg to yellow

[XX]     Sep 26-59 — still green

[XX]     Oct 15- " ripe how long? — Oct 6-60 only copper-brown

[XX]     perhaps owing to frost—