This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
It was not those miserable compositors this time, but the naughty Editor that located Giddings' nurseries at Danville, Indiana, instead of Danville, Illinois. But after all what business has Illinois with a Danville ? Is the catalogue of names so fully exhausted that a wide awake city must seize that which has been appropriated by another ? If we were about to found a city, we would rather call it Blunderbuss, Boomerang, Monkeyville, or any circus name in the wide world than Danville, Smithville, or any other pre-empted one. If not altogether in sackcloth and ashes for our mistake, we can at least drop a tear over the loss of 800 panes of glass to friend Giddings by the hail storm of June 5th.
 
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