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Updated: May 4, 2025
Of course we had to put up with many failures, but still it was worth while to persevere, as, in addition to carrots, onions, turnips, which grew to perfection, potatoes and cabbages, we had salads of different kinds, small pumpkins, and fine cauliflowers. I soon discovered that peat was extremely favorable to them, so we had a trench made in peaty soil, where they grew splendidly.
Among the vines quantities of yellow melons and green water-melons were strewn over the ground, while the mottled pumpkins hung gracefully from the branches of the orange-trees. In front of the castle was an arbour, formed of box-trees, under which a lovely fountain had been constructed; and here, in the hot summer months, would wander the baron’s only daughter, Alina.
When I returned the 'busman was driving away after having brought Miss Flipp's uncle, and Andrew was assisting to fill a spring-cart with pumpkins.
Along the edge of the parapet, and trailing over almost to the ground covering the house in a bower of rich green foliage the melons, cucumbers, and pumpkins blossomed and fruited luxuriantly and, for these, prices were obtained as high as those that the fruit would fetch, in Covent Garden, when out of season.
These I could have treated with some of the simple drugs in the chest, but I refused to do so; for I could not have explained, in any satisfactory way, how I knew one drug from another, or was acquainted with their qualities. Still, although I refused fees, I had many little presents of fowls, fruit, pumpkins, and other things.
I have noticed that a great pumpkin, the wonder of a village, seemed to lose at least a third of its dimensions between the field where it grew and the cattle-show fair-table, where it took its place with other enormous pumpkins from other wondering villages.
On entering Pumpkintown a cluster of five or six small, whitewashed blockhouses, toeing squarely on the highway the only inhabitant we saw was a small boy, who was as frank and simple as if he had lived on pumpkins and marrow squashes all his days.
Comparison of her midget irritation with those that had put broad white streaks in my hair was amusing, but the rosy heart of a girl magnifies that which it doesn't contract. "Grandma wants me to marry. Did you see that fellow who was after pumpkins? he ought to make one of his head, the great thing!
The pumpkins planted between his rows of Indian corn had swelled and swelled, till they lay huge golden balls on the ground, promising abundant dishes of 'squash' and sweet pie through the winter. 'How is it that everything thrives with you, Wynn? young Armytage said one afternoon that he found the brothers busy slitting rails for the fencing of the aforesaid fall-wheat.
"And so they ain't sweet peas at all!" exclaimed a disappointed voice behind them, and there stood Peace herself, contemplating her treasures with solemn eyes. "No, dear, they are pumpkins, I guess. What kind of seed did you plant?" "I planted sweet pea seed," came the mournful reply. "Leastways the sack said so. Hope read it herself."
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