Thoreau writes in his journal:
There are many small spruce thereabouts, with small twigs and leaves, an abnormal growth, reminding one of strange species of evergreen from California, China, etc. I brought some home and had a cup of tea made, which, in spite of a slight piny or turpentine flavor, I thought unexpectedly good . . .
A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
Evening. Thoreau here, and talks much on his favorite themes of wild life, on Emerson, and Blake [H. G. O. Blake] of Worcester particularly . . . (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 305).
