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Proprietor Julian Melck is one of the eighth generation of Melcks to farm this barren land, which his family first settled in 1770. He hosts extravagant dinner parties - foie gras, venison, malva pudding, set to robust reds from nearby vineyards - around a giant polished table at which he arranges guests with a view to conversation. Accommodation is king-size and regally furnished - leather armchairs, four-poster beds, wall-to-wall libraries - in a line of converted outbuildings. And with geese wandering down the dust avenue that runs between the buildings as horses nuzzle in their pens beyond, the view...
...live that summer of 1984? On the one hand, with great difficulty, overburdened. But I also continued working on my flower garden. I planted Matthiola and Malva. I made jam, lots of jam. If Andrei continued to be separated from me, he would at least have jam for the whole winter...
...nothing happened. Had the century-old seeds finally expired? No. After several weeks the first seedling emerged; within five months 29 seeds had germinated. Six of the seedlings died. Of the survivors, 21 are moth mullein, one is another type of Verbascum and the last a variety of the Malva species that had not sprouted since...
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