Thomas Jefferson's quotes on gardening and seed saving

Date:   8/5/2014 8:28:00 PM ( 10 y ago)

Thomas Jefferson's quotes on gardening and seed saving

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6:27 pm
August 5, 2014

To quote the man, “The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”


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1811 August 20. (Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale). "I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position & calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. "no occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, & no culture comparable to that of the garden. such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, & instead of one harvest a continued one thro’ the year. under a total want of demand except for our family table I am still devoted to the garden. but tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener."[10]

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