July 19, 1789

Posted by sydney on Jul 19th, 1789

When old beech-trees are cleared away, the naked ground in a year or two becomes covered with straw-berry plants, the seed of which must have lain in the ground for an age at lest.  One of the slidders or trenches down the middle of the hanger, close covered over with lofty beeches near a century old, is still called strawberry slidder, though no strawberries have grown there in the memory of man.  That sort of fruit, no doubt, did once abound there, & will again when the obstruction is removed.

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