Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]  Tuesday, June 20, 1916  Wea [Weather] 
Fine
Clear and cool with violent N.W. [northwest] wind. 
The first really fine day for I know not 
how long.
Only a few half-ripe strawberries as 
yet. Mountain laurel just beginning 
to bloom. Locust blossoms well out.
All flowers unusually late, thus far. 
Irises passing. No roses yet.
  Spent entire day working in 
flower gardens with Burbank &
George. We pulled or dug up countless
weeds of various kinds and saved
a miscellaneous lot of seeds (some 8 or
10 years old) broadcast in vacant spots.  
The old garden behind house has been
utterly neglected until now but nevertheless
is radiant with brilliant poppies &
other flowers.
  Birds mostly silenced by high wind
but Goldfinch, Indigo bird [Indigo bunting], Oriole & a few
others sang freely near house. Walked to 
Birch Field 7.30-8 P.M. Towhee singing
[?], Veeries calling in run and Oven birds [Ovenbirds] 
giving [flight?] songs. 2 Robins near Spring.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill) - Cambridge
A Deer in the House garden, Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 21, 1916 Wea (Weather) Fine
Final spraying of woodland.
Brilliantly clear with light westerly wind
up to 4 P.M. after which clouds gathered 
bringing brisk showers (5-9 P.M.)
  Duren came for the last time this morning 
and with George to help we put in a systematic 
and very effective forenoon's work, the most satisfactory 
by far of any that has been undertaken this season.
We began in Birch Field, where millions of 
Gypsy larvae were threatening to strip everything; 
next took the wood path leading towards 
Bensens, where they were comparatively scarce;
thence to Pine Ridge where they were bad only in 
spots; finally, reaching the back side of Ball's Hill 
shortly before noon & finding only a few there. On
the South Side there were fewer still so we decided 
to spray only Bensen's Knoll & thence to Pine Park 
shed. Leaving  Duren & George to perform this task 
I returned to the Farm at noon. After dinner
Burbank.& I sprayed, with our hand pump, the 
shrubbery along W.Side of Cow Pasture and the apple 
trees close behind our house.  At 3.45 P.M.
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] and I started for Cambridge, reaching there
at 4.00 when I went to Harvard Square & had my 
hair cut. Alice Stone dined with C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] &
me at 7 and stayed until 9.  Soon after that I 
went to bed. Mrs. Stone saw a big doe in
the [?] little garden  Appleton St. yesterday
morning - It leaped the fence to run up the Street.