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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], A country life. (search)
published "Wet Days at Edgewood"--a very agreeably-written volume. Of a country life, he says: "In the course of one of my earlier Wet Days, I took occasion to allude to the brave old age that was reached by the classic veterans — Xenophon, Cato and Varro; and now I find among the most eminent British agriculturists and gardeners of the close of the last century a firm grip on life that would have matched the hardihood of Cato. Old Abercrombie, of Preston Pans, as we have already seen, rCato. Old Abercrombie, of Preston Pans, as we have already seen, reached the age of eighty. Walpole, though I lay no claim to him as farmer or gardener, yet, thanks to walks and garden-work of Strawberry Hill, lived to the same age. Philip Milles was an octogenarian. Lord Kames was aged thirty-seven at his death (1782). Arthur Young, though struggling with blindness in his later years, had accumulated such stock of vitality by his out-door life as to bridge him well over into the present century: he died in 1820, aged seventy-nine. Parson Trusler, notwithst