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Old Time Gardens 
One of Thoreau’s Apples was the Green Apple 
( Mains viridis > or Cholera morbifera puerelis detec- 
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 Mill. 
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- 
