the Thoreau Log.
2 August 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Heavy, long-continued, but warm rain in the night, raising the river already eight or nine inches and disturbing the meadow haymakers. John Legross brought me a quantity of red huckleberries yesterday. The less ripe are whitish. I suspect that these are the white huckleberries.

  Sundown.—To Nawshawtuct.

  The waxwork berries are yellowing. 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 . . .

(Journal, 5:352-353)

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