How sweet it is
Aug 31, 2019
2 minutes
Illustration by Daisy Gray
“Wherever I looked I could see fields of tall green Indian corn, with its tassel tops, bending and waving under the fresh breeze that was sweeping over it.”
—Alexander Harris, Settlers and Convicts, London, 1847
CORN or maize was usually the first crop planted by the ‘dungaree settlers’ in New South Wales, so called because they wore ‘duck’ jackets and trousers of cheap blue cotton dyed with indigo and imported
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