Gardening With Brains Fifty Years Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure
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When he got home in the evening he found that the vine had got ahead of him and deposited a ripe melon on his doorstep. The ranch was a quarter of a mile from his house. One version of the story says half a mile, but that's absurd. I am convinced that Mark Twain wasn't entirely in his right mind when he wrote an article for an agricultural paper (of which he was temporary editor) in which he said that "turnips should never be pulled; it injures them. It is much better to send a boy up and let h...im shake the tree. " Mark Twain was certainly an ass. He didn't know the first rudiments of horticulture. He also wrote that "the guano is a fine bird, but great care is necessary in rearing it"; that farmers should plant their buckwheat cakes in July instead of August; and that "the pumpkin as a shade tree is a failure. " Holy Moses! Can you beat it? Evidently all these things came to the fore in my brain the other night when I had a singular dream which made me supremely happy. I IB TIMING VEGETABLES 133 am particularly fond of cantaloupes, but can't raise them up here because, as I have said before, the nights are too cold and the season is too short.
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