Paul Bowdring

"Though the partridgeberry was my father's favourite wild berry, this was the heart of the blueberry season, and blueberries were my favourite. No worries about worms, for one thing...And blueberries were sweet enough to eat on the spot, didn't require cooking up with lashings of sugar, as partridgeberries did, though the old man claimed they tasted sweet."

"'Could you put those forget-me-nots in with her?' she asked Dr. Devine, in reply to which, of course, no matter what she thought of it, how much she wanted to plant those seeds instead of incinerating them, the good doctor could only say yes."