161
Peterborough, New Hampshire
1898
July 5 to
Aug. 15 
(No. 9)
cornels, high and low blueberries, black alders, elders,
etc. in the usual profusion and Rhodora is especially
abundant growing in differently on low and high ground
- in the swamps, throughout the pastures and in many
places along the roadsides. The mountain holly is almost
equally common and widespread.
[margin]Trees &
shrubs[/margin]
  Of the more lowly plants, which carpet the ground
under the trees, the painted and the purple trilliums,
the trailing arbutus, Dalibarda repens and the club 
mosses have oftenest attracted my attention for they 
occur nearly everywhere.
  Ferns also grow in great beauty and profusion but
there are fewer species than I had expected to 
find.
  In connection with the list of trees I should 
have mentioned the bass-wood, which is rather
common, and the chestnut, of which a fine old
specimen, apparently indigenous and the only one seen
by us or known to Mr. Day, stands on the crest
of [delete]the[/delete] a knoll in the valley below our house. On the 
eastern slope of the Pack Monadnock ridge, however, the
chestnut is said to be abundant as is, also, the 
mountain laurel. 
  I should have noted, also, that the paper and
the gray birch are about equally abundant and
that they are often to be seen growing together. 
Mr. Day says that the black birch occurs sparingly
but I have not seen it. (I afterwards found a few tall
black birches at Cunningham pond growing on a northern slope among
paper birches & tall red spruces)