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Trip to Concord, Mass.

1911
Sept. 23
(2)

woods by Davis’ Hill where its fine oaks are
going past and being cut down. We saw the
tall White Pine, over 100 ft. high. Will showed
us a Red-shouldered Hawk’s nest. The birds
breed there regularly every other year and yet
the place is never molested. That is strange.
Birds were very scarce. We saw or heard there
Partridges, a flock of Blackpolls, one of White-
throats, a Jay crying like a Red-shouldered Hawk.
We visited the Red Pines a nice grove of
them near the Farm House.

We feasted on grapes. There are a great
many Concord and they were delicious. There
was a vine of white sweet grapes and one of
small Delaware all very good.

The apple trees were bearing, owing to
successful grafting and spraying, in a most
prolific manner. I never saw such dense
clusters of apples before.

Abundant deer tracks all over the area
we walked over show that deer are numerous
now. Mr. James, Will’s man, sees many.

At 4.30 P.M. we bade Will goodbye, and
Mr. James drove us through Concord to the
Fitchburg Station where we took the 5.02
train for Porters Sta. & home by electrics.
The evening was spent in talk.

Bidens connata Muhl.
Very abundant on the border of the creek opp. Ball's Hill, Bedford.
Utricularia vulgaris L.
Abundant Concord River, border of meadows opp. the Cabin, Bedford.
Panicum columbianum Scribn. (Dupl. sent Mrs. A. Chase)
Shady rather dry woods slope of & near Ball’s Hill, Concord