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The olive is a tree the least known in America , and yet the most worthy of being known . ... are mere masses of rock , wherever there happens to be a little soil , there are a number of olive trees , and a village supported by them .
The olive is a tree the least known in America , and yet the most worthy of being known . ... are mere masses of rock , wherever there happens to be a little soil , there are a number of olive trees , and a village supported by them .
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And I planted some garden cherry - stones , just ripening , and red and white strawberries in a patch under the shade of the old St. Michael's pear - tree . Some of my young red - oak - trees are putting forth shoots of a second growth ...
And I planted some garden cherry - stones , just ripening , and red and white strawberries in a patch under the shade of the old St. Michael's pear - tree . Some of my young red - oak - trees are putting forth shoots of a second growth ...
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A crowd of bystanders at the last station in Iowa jeered at the sight of the trees headed for the western deserts . Beyond Missouri the party joined a wagon train . The plains were hot , Indian - infested . The oxen grew lame pulling ...
A crowd of bystanders at the last station in Iowa jeered at the sight of the trees headed for the western deserts . Beyond Missouri the party joined a wagon train . The plains were hot , Indian - infested . The oxen grew lame pulling ...
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Contents
Christopher Columbus Turns in a Crop | 3 |
Much More Corne was Planted | 9 |
PERLEY POORE How the Pig Helped to Make Massa | 16 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Harvest: An Anthology of Farm Writing |
| Editor | Wheeler McMillen |
| Publisher | Appleton-Century, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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