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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Don’t prove too much; beware of the landlord!” a practical gardener once wrote to me.”

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Don’t prove too much; beware of the landlord!” a practical gardener once wrote to me.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin shares a cautionary advice from a practical gardener about landlords.

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