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 APPLE BLOSSOMS 



May 21, 1852. The earlier apple trees are in bloom, 

 and resound with the hum of bees of all sizes and 

 other insects. To sit Under the first apple tree in 

 blossom is to take another step into summer. The 

 apple blossoms are so abundant and full, white 

 tinged with red; a rich-scented Pomona fragrance, 

 telling of heaps of apples in the autumn, perfectly 

 innocent, wholesome, and delicious. 



Journal, iv, 67. 



The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most 

 beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious 

 to both sight and scent. The walker is frequently 

 tempted to turn and linger near some more than 

 usually handsome one, whose blossoms are two- 

 thirds expanded. How superior it is in these respects 

 to the pear, whose blossoms are neither colored nor 

 fragrant! 



Excursions, 294. 



. BEAUTY OF WILD APPLES ^ 



Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair, — apples 

 not of Discord, but of Concord ! Yet not so rare but 



' Thoreau's enthusiastic essay on "Wild Apples" is still admirably 

 up-to-date, so far as Concord is concerned. Both when in flower and in 

 fruit, the wild apple trees of Concord form a strong attraction for the 

 walker. H. W. G. 



