52 | October 2015
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BY MELISSA GOSLIN
Florida has oranges.
California has raisins.
In the sands of North Carolina,
we have the Muscadine grape
Fruits
O F T H E
Farm
"We
viewed
the
land
about
us,
being
whereas
we
first
landed
very
sandy
and
low
towards
the
waterside,
but
so
full
of
grapes
as
the
very
beating
and
surge
of
the
sea
overflowed
them,
of
which
we
found
such
plenty,
as
well
there
as
in
all
places
else,
both
on
the
sand
and
on
the
green
soil
on
the
hills
as
in
the
plains,
as
well
on
every
little
shrub
as
also
climbing
towards
the
tops
of
the
high
cedars,
that
I
think
in
all
the
world
the
like
abundance
is
not
to
be
found."
~
Letter
to
Sir
Walter
Raleigh
from
Arthur
Barlow,
1584
