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Making Garden in the Tropics and Early Gardeners
A Nassau correspondent describes farming in the Bahamas, cultivating year round vegetables in three fenced plots, learning a crowding, wind protected method, and discovering wells, with accounts of Yankee tomatoes, lettuce failures, and large turnips. He notes new gardens near Waterloo and a ten acre coconut grove turned into a thriving garden with water from wells. The piece also recounts Frank Carpenter the artist from Homer, his father Asaph Carpenter, Jedediah Barber’s sign boom, and the moment when Frank’s painting talent redirected the family from farming to art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Bahamas
Nassau
New Providence
New York
Waterloo
Gardner
Old Henery
Henery
Henry
Israel Sims
Captain Brown
Cocoanut Grove
Bahama Islands
Bermuda
Frank Carpenter
Homer
Cortland County
Bhut
Abraham Lincoln
Asaph Carpenter
Frank
Carpenter
Jedediah Barber
Jedediah
Metropolis
Mr. Carpenter