apples-trees

Updated: May 21, 2025

Nevertheless, it pleases me to think of the good minister, walking in the shadows of these old, fantastically shaped apples-trees, here plucking some of the fruit to taste, there pruning away a too luxuriant branch, and all the while computing how many barrels may be filled, and how large a sum will be added to his stipend by their sale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.