October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green.

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Thoreau coveted the plant's strong purple stalk for a cane, and the robins eat its dark crimson-juiced berries.

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