The Boston Globe, November 9th, 1997
Began harvest this week. Corn very poor in the Garden. Potatoes more than middling considering the drought. -- From William Emerson's diaries, 1775 It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. Later in the season the hummingbirds were attracted by the blossoms of a peculiar variety of bean. -- From "Mosses from an Old Manse" by Nanthaniel Hawthorne Hardly plain living at the Manse as far as food was concerned. The garden producing cherries and ...
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