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Old Time Gardens 



One of Thoreau's Apples was the Green Apple 

 (Malus viruttSj or Cholera morbifera puerelis delec- 

 tissima). I know not for how many centuries boys 

 (and girls too) have eaten and suffered from green 

 apples. A description was written in 1684 which 



Pressing out Cider in Old Hand M 



might have happened any summer since ; I quote 

 it with reminiscent delight, for I have the same 

 love for the spirited relation that I had in my early 

 youth when I never, for a moment, in spite of the 

 significant names, .deemed the entire book any- 



