in Thoreau’s Journal:


Now the red osier berries are very handsome along the river, overhanging the water, for the most part pale blue mixed with whitish, —part of the pendant jewelry of the season. The berries of the alternate-leaved cornel have dropped off mostly. The white-berried and red osier are in their prime. The other three kinds I have not seen. The viburnums, dentatum and nudum, are in their prime. The sweet viburnum not yet purple, and the maple-leaved still yellowish. Hemp still in blossom.
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