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GEORGE Washington may have been a Revolutionary leader and the first president of the United States, but in many of his diaries he sounds like a typical Virginia farmer. Washington’s diaries, which will be published next month by the University Press of Virginia, reveal his passion for crops, fruits and flowers, and his notes very nearly constitute a synopsis of 18th-century horticulture, according to Dr. Donald Jackson, editor of “The Papers of George Washington” at the University of Virginia.
Washington seems unaware that any other eyes will see, or need to see, what he is writing in the diaries, and we find him a warmer, more human man than his pragmatic and lusterless national image—a man given to wry humor and towering rage, Dr. .larksnn said
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