Plants

Under a spreading chestnut tree   The village smithy stands; The smith, a might man is he,   With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms   Are strong as iron bands ——The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1912. The American chestnut was once a widely distributed, magnificently large deciduous tree […]

These snakes are often called puff adders and are thick bodied, non-venomous snakes found in the eastern United States.  Hognose snake range from southern Florida and east to Texas, north to central New England, the Great Lakes Region, and into southern Canada.  They have quite a list of alternative names such as chunk head, hissing

Some intervales of fair weather last night, rain continue this morning. I walked up the Brook & assended the first Spur of the mountain with much fatigue, the distance about 3 miles, through an intolerable thickets of Small pine, a groth much resembling arrow wood on the Stem of which there is thorns; this groth about

Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then, heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.As You Like It.  William Shakespeare American holly is a medium-sized, evergreen, broad-leaved tree of the east coast of the U.S. extending from southern N.J. through the coastal states of the southeastern

Lewis’s river appeas to pass through these mots. near their N. Eastern extremity. these hills terminate in a high level plain between the Kooskooske and Lewis’s river.    These plains are in many places well covered with the Longleafed pine, with some Larch and balsom fir.   The soil is extreemly fertile no dose it appear