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Old Time Gardens 



Walden Pond. I am told his haunts are little 

 changed since the years when he lived there ; and 

 I had expected to find Walden Pond a scene of 

 much wild beauty, but it was the mildest of wild 



Old Hand-power Cider Mill. 



woods ; it seemed to me as thoroughly civilized and 

 social as an Apple orchard. 



Thoreau christened the Apple trees of his acquain- 

 tance with appropriate names in the lingua vernacula: 

 the Truant's Apple, the Saunterer's Apple, Decem- 



