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Planting Spoons: A Garden Story From the Life of Canadian Pioneer Catherine Parr Traill
“One day, Catherine realized her spoons were gone. Sounding the alarm, Catherine discovered that her young son Willie admitted he had taken them, and he had planted them in the garden.” January 9, 1802 On this day, the Canadian-English writer and botanical illustrator Catherine Parr Traill was born. Catherine and her husband, Thomas, faced extraordinary…
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