prickly-coated

Updated: May 21, 2025

Blackberries are thick, too it is a berry year and up in the horse-chestnut the prickly-coated nuts hang up in bunches, as many as eight in a stalk. Acorns are large, but not so singularly numerous as the berries, nor are hazel-nuts. This provision of hedge fruit no more indicates a severe winter than a damaged wheat harvest indicates a mild one. There is something wrong with elm trees.

Richard Jefferies - Nature Near London