Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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Our gardener, Thomas Bowman, showed me a great curiosity which he found in digging among the artichoke plants. It resembled exactly a caterpillar, but, when broke in two, was only a root, which, he says, he has seen produce leaves, there being many of them to be met with in a strawberry bed at Banks. I call it the vegetable caterpillar.

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• Artichoke (1) W/G ·
• Caterpillar (2) W/G ·
• 📌Dodworth (17) W/G ·
• Gardening (6) W/G ·
• Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown W/G ·
• Root (1) W/G ·
• Strawberry (3) W/G ·

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