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[[underlined]] Trees [[/underlined]]
  
[[underlined]] Hophornbeam [[/underlined]] - out on a pasture hillside (Ladies Delight) was a tree that looked as if hung with hop vine.
[[underline]] Sept. 1 [[/underline]] - Wild cherry trees are red or black with cherries now.
There are two hazel bushes here, one with a fluted fringelike edge & one with a beak [[image - pen sketch of a leaf]]  The fringe takes lovely soft saffron pinks.
Some sugar maples are red in the woods - occasional leaves on the road - small bushes are vivid.  The fall grasses - sedges? - are brown & of varied forms.
The mushrooms - toadstools - are soft purples, yellows, reds, & vivid white - beautiful.  Miss Small makes a moss garden on the stove mantle with vari-colored toad stools - a beautiful bouquet.
[[underlined]] River maple [[/underlined]] ^[[insertion]] acer dasycarpum [[/insertion]] at Fryeburg Harbor 23 ft in diam. at narrowest [[insertion]] belt [[/insertion]] part. 28 a ft above the ground. 8 large trunks after the fork.
[[underline]] Sugar maples [[/underline]] are scattered through the woods & give red touches in September.
[[underline]] Hazel [[/underline]] - the fringed kind. Sept. 12 - The leaves are a

Transcription Notes:
hophornbeam - type of tree