1901
June 26
(7)
Cambridge,Mass.
noble proportions. There are also tupelos (most of them
small but several sixty or seventy feet in height and three
or four feet in girth), red maples, rum cherries, elms, and a 
few clusters of gray birches, with a single horse chestnut
and some Norway spruces which were evidently planted.
  Beneath the larger trees grow young oaks, maples, elms,
wild cherries and a few hawthorns forming a thin but untrimmed
and charmingly natural undergrowth overrun in several places
with greenbriar. Much of the surface of the ground is also
densely covered with poison ivy, woodbine and blackberry
vines but beneath some of the pines it is carpeted only with
pine needles. I could find none of the plants which usually
grow in primitive woodland, such as the ground pines,
pipsissewa, sarsaparilla, partridge berry, etc. Indeed I have
named all the plants that I noticed here.
  These woods are intersected by broad foot paths which
are numerous and cross each other at intervals of every few
yards and divide the thickets into many separate copses. The
place is open to the public and men and girls were passing
and repassing along the paths or resting in the cool shade of
the trees all the time that I was there.