

*That's what the old man on Plot 88 calls them - he's seen them come and go in his time (he lives in a house backing on to his plot).
(Later: they are sisters. The one on the left is Christina (Tina for short); the other is Anita).
...the banks all green with celery, the endive rejoicing in a rivulet; the cucumber snaking amidst the grass and swelling to greatness... (Virgil's Georgics IV:120, trans. C. Day Lewis)
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