LONDON’S OWN HARVEST
Some people wonder why there are special harvest thanksgiving services every year in churches in the heart of London. "What has London to do with harvests?” they ask, forgetting that the great cities would starve if it were not for “the kindly fruits of the earth.” But apart from that dependence on harvests elsewhere, London has her own crops. This year, for instance, grapes ripened in the garden of the Girdlers’ Company in Basinghall Street. There are vines in a good many London gardens, and although, as a rule, they just fail to ripen, they provide a characteristic city delicacy—grape jelly, which is eaten with game and mutton. Mulberries are perhaps the most
famous item in London’s harvest, but it is the pigeons who get most of them, though the Drapers’ Company serves mulberry pie, made with fruit of its own growing, at some of its dinners. And this year tomatoes have been grown in the garden on the roof of the Mansion House.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19957, 15 November 1934, Page 12
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167LONDON’S OWN HARVEST Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19957, 15 November 1934, Page 12
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