APPENDIX 



/. NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER 



1. An October record for robin song is given in the 

 text, but the A\Titer has not known the robin as a fluent 

 songster in September. Slight but real songs were heard 

 at Lawrence, Kansas, on October 2, 5, and 6, 1914. 



2. Greene gives both the papaw and persimmon as 

 ''not common." Gray's Manual locates the papaw in 

 northeastern Iowa, and the persimmon in southeastern 

 Iowa. In Lawrence, Kansas, the negro boys are some- 

 times thromng sticks and stones to bring down persim- 

 mons from the park trees as early as the twentieth of 

 September, though often the fruit is not at its best till 

 much later. As is well kno^^^l, its sweetness waits for a 

 sharp frost. The persimmon trees are among the first 

 to show a tinge of autumnal yellow — sometimes before 

 the end of September. This note appeared in a Memphis 

 paper in the fall of 1913: ''There is no such thing as 

 persimmon ^vmQ. Once there ^vas persimmon beer. It 

 is about as palatable as rainwater flavored vvdth dried 

 apples. ' ' 



3. One year the sumac began to color on the Uni- 

 versity campus at Lawrence by the twenty-third of 

 September. One year on September fourteenth scarlet 



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