the Thoreau Log.
5 May 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Beck Stow’s.  Cold weather for several days. Canada plum and cultivated cherry and Missouri currant look as if they would bloom to-morrow. The sugar maples on the Common have just begun to show their stamens peeping out of the bud, but that by Dr. Barrett’s has them an inch and a half long or more.

  The trees and shrubs which I observe to make a show now with their green, without regard to the time when they began, are (to put them in the order of their intensity and generalness):—

Gooseberry, both kinds
Raspberry
Meadow-sweet
Choke-cherry shoots
Some young trembles
Very young apples . . .

(Journal,7:357-359)

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