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Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

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Market Garden Walter Jon Williams 2009

I engaged a garden; I devoted myself to horticulture; I worked frantically, like a man whom nothing can divert, turning up the soil of the market-garden, and appropriating the ground to the culture of flowers.

Honorine 2007

I engaged a garden; I devoted myself to horticulture; I worked frantically, like a man whom nothing can divert, turning up the soil of the market-garden, and appropriating the ground to the culture of flowers.

Honorine 2007

At length after much difficulty I reached a market-garden, and hid myself deep down among the cabbages, where I passed a quiet night.

The Grey Fairy Book 2003

As a child eight years old he was already accompanying the driver, not much older than himself, returning by night bringing back fresh vegetables and labile goods from the renowned French market-garden of Fonds-de-Givonne.

Albert Claude - Autobiography 1975

At length the sylvan scenery gives place to endless fields of cabbage, potatoes, maize, and onions, for the cool heights of the Tengger range serve the prosaic purpose of market-garden to Eastern Java, and all European vegetables may be cultivated here with success.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

I begin my day with a canny Scot, who was born in Edinburgh in 1726, near which city his father conducted a large market-garden.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

As late as 1830, Winnisimmet was of no importance except as a market-garden and thoroughfare.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

Finally by an almost intolerable gradient we topped the divide and found ourselves overlooking a wonderful, well-watered plain five thousand feet above the sea, and cultivated as far as the vision could carry with the care and precision of a market-garden.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall