The arbor-vitæ by riverside behind Monroe’s appears to be just now fairly in blossom. I notice acorns sprouted. My birch wine now, after a week or more, has become pretty clear and colorless again, the brown part having settled and now coating the glass.

  Helped Mr. Emerson [Ralph Waldo Emerson] set out in Sleepy Hollow two over-cup oaks, one beech, and two arbor-vitaes . . .