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Jim Provines had quite a different life from that of his sister and her children, although maybe he had interests in common with his niece and nephew Alma and Fred.
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Splendora Aug 13
Dear Sister
Your letter recd this week. I think you were lucky to get to a cool climate, it is warmer here now than at any time since I came here to Texas. I don’t try to do any thing except to dig enough Sweet potatoes and Peanuts each day to feed the hogs. If Fred goes back to Africa again and is located where the climate is something like South Texas, would like for him to send me some seeds of things that grow there. The Loofa gourd comes from Africa. I have some vines now full of gourds, some of them 18 inches long, the people here call them dishcloth gourds. I sent one to you at Savannah but you never said if you had received it. Fred ought to get in the automobile business.
Grace Keller wrote me that John had bought a garage at Staunton Va and was making lots of money.
I have had poor luck budding pecans, have tried all the ways I know of but have failed to get any to grow yet - it may be the weather is too hot, or that I sweat too much. One of the catalogues says any one that sweats much can’t bud Pecan.
I have found a way to use sweet peppers. I had more than I could use at first. Now I take 6 of the large sweet kind after they turn red and one of the small hot kind and grate them like horseradish and mix with vinegar. I have an extra good kind of peppers. Very large and thicker flesh than any I saw.
Love and best wishes
Jim
Dear Sister
Your letter recd this week. I think you were lucky to get to a cool climate, it is warmer here now than at any time since I came here to Texas. I don’t try to do any thing except to dig enough Sweet potatoes and Peanuts each day to feed the hogs. If Fred goes back to Africa again and is located where the climate is something like South Texas, would like for him to send me some seeds of things that grow there. The Loofa gourd comes from Africa. I have some vines now full of gourds, some of them 18 inches long, the people here call them dishcloth gourds. I sent one to you at Savannah but you never said if you had received it. Fred ought to get in the automobile business.
Grace Keller wrote me that John had bought a garage at Staunton Va and was making lots of money.
I have had poor luck budding pecans, have tried all the ways I know of but have failed to get any to grow yet - it may be the weather is too hot, or that I sweat too much. One of the catalogues says any one that sweats much can’t bud Pecan.
I have found a way to use sweet peppers. I had more than I could use at first. Now I take 6 of the large sweet kind after they turn red and one of the small hot kind and grate them like horseradish and mix with vinegar. I have an extra good kind of peppers. Very large and thicker flesh than any I saw.
Love and best wishes
Jim
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1.
The Loofa gourd comes from Africa. I have some vines now full of gourds, some of them 18 inches long, the people here call them dishcloth gourds.
Yup, I googled on dishcloth gourds and got Loofah
Collins Dictionary says:
any of a genus (Luffa) of tropical vines of the gourd family, having thin-shelled, large, cylindrical fruits with dense fibrous interior tissues used for dishcloths or filters.
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Fred ought to get in the automobile business.
What? Why? I guess because he’s mechanical and could run a garage like John. This was John Keller, the husband of Grace Holt Keller, Jim's and Mama Margaret's niece.
3.
I have had poor luck budding pecans, have tried all the ways I know of but have failed to get any to grow yet - it may be the weather is too hot, or that I sweat too much. One of the catalogues says any one that sweats much can’t bud Pecan.
Too bad. Will had asked Alma previously about grafting pecans:
1914-12-10 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO ALMA
He wants me to ask you about pecans. If they would in planting produce what is grafted or like the original stock that they were grafted on to. He is going to buy some thin shelled ones to send to Jim to plant so he can graft them onto the bitter kind that grow wild there, but he was not sure they would when grafted be what he would send.
And in Jim's next letter he also mentioned that the pecans had not succeeded.
1916-09-17 LETTER FROM JIM PROVINES TO MAMA MARGARET
My pecan budding was a failure, did not get any to grow.
4.
Mama Margaret sent this letter on to Will enclosed in her letter
1916_09_22_Letter_FROM_MargaretProvinesStokey_TO_WillStokey (not yet uploaded)
…along with another letter from Jim:
1916-09-17 LETTER FROM JIM PROVINES TO MAMA MARGARET
5. Jim died in Pennsylvania in 1924, but when Will was in Texas in 1934 he met with a friend of Jim's:
1934-04-01 LETTER FROM WILL TO EVA
I saw Uncle Jim's friend John Sullivan. ("The Irishman") He was looking well and seemed to be getting along fairly well, but he didn't think much of farming in that neighborhood, or part of the country. There is really very much better land in other parts of Texas and I think there is plenty of it not cultivated.
The Loofa gourd comes from Africa. I have some vines now full of gourds, some of them 18 inches long, the people here call them dishcloth gourds.
Yup, I googled on dishcloth gourds and got Loofah
Collins Dictionary says:
any of a genus (Luffa) of tropical vines of the gourd family, having thin-shelled, large, cylindrical fruits with dense fibrous interior tissues used for dishcloths or filters.
2.
Fred ought to get in the automobile business.
What? Why? I guess because he’s mechanical and could run a garage like John. This was John Keller, the husband of Grace Holt Keller, Jim's and Mama Margaret's niece.
3.
I have had poor luck budding pecans, have tried all the ways I know of but have failed to get any to grow yet - it may be the weather is too hot, or that I sweat too much. One of the catalogues says any one that sweats much can’t bud Pecan.
Too bad. Will had asked Alma previously about grafting pecans:
1914-12-10 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO ALMA
He wants me to ask you about pecans. If they would in planting produce what is grafted or like the original stock that they were grafted on to. He is going to buy some thin shelled ones to send to Jim to plant so he can graft them onto the bitter kind that grow wild there, but he was not sure they would when grafted be what he would send.
And in Jim's next letter he also mentioned that the pecans had not succeeded.
1916-09-17 LETTER FROM JIM PROVINES TO MAMA MARGARET
My pecan budding was a failure, did not get any to grow.
4.
Mama Margaret sent this letter on to Will enclosed in her letter
1916_09_22_Letter_FROM_MargaretProvinesStokey_TO_WillStokey (not yet uploaded)
…along with another letter from Jim:
1916-09-17 LETTER FROM JIM PROVINES TO MAMA MARGARET
5. Jim died in Pennsylvania in 1924, but when Will was in Texas in 1934 he met with a friend of Jim's:
1934-04-01 LETTER FROM WILL TO EVA
I saw Uncle Jim's friend John Sullivan. ("The Irishman") He was looking well and seemed to be getting along fairly well, but he didn't think much of farming in that neighborhood, or part of the country. There is really very much better land in other parts of Texas and I think there is plenty of it not cultivated.
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