From "The Apple" [Winter Sunshine]
"An apple orchard is sure to bear you several crops beside
the apple. There is the crop of sweet and tender reminiscences,
dating from childhood and spanning the seasons from May to
October, and making the orchard a sort of outlying part of the
household. You have played there as a child, mused there as
a youth or lover, strolled there as a thoughtful, sad-eyed
man. Your father, perhaps, planted the trees, or reared them
from the seed, and you yourself have pruned and grafted them,
and worked among them, till every separate tree has a peculiar
history and meaning in your mind."
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