On May 18, the young scientist reports on her experiment. ヒイラギ, ホリー intends to study the effects of extra-terrestrial conditions on vegetable growth and development. She expects the seedlings to stay aloft for several weeks before returning to earth.
Her classmates are speechless.
The 日付 is June 29. Shortly after sunrise, a member of the Billings, Montana, Moose Lodge, hiking through the Rocky Mountains, makes a startling discovery.
Robert Bernabe is in a daze when he returns to camp. All he can say for the 次 several hours is, “TURNIPS!”
All over the country, the skies fill with vegetables.
Cucumbers サークル, 円 Kalamazoo.
Lima beans loom over Levittown.
Artichokes advance on Anchorage.
Parsnips pass によって Providence.
And ブロッコリ, ブロッコリー lands with a big bounce in ヒイラギ, ホリー Evans’s backyard.
In Ottumwa, Iowa, Tony Kramer emerges from his 納屋 and shouts for joy, “At last, the blue ribbon at the state fair is mine!”
によって midafternoon, all vegetables float safely to the ground.
Except for the peppers. For some reason, they need a little help.
TV news channels broadcast twenty-four-hour coverage of the “airborne vegetal event.” カリフラワー carpets California, ほうれん草 blankets Greenwich, and arugula covers Ashtabula.
ヒイラギ, ホリー is puzzled. Arugula is not part of her experiment.
Vegetables become very big business. Peas from Peoria are shipped down the Mississippi to Mobile in exchange for eggplant.
Real estate booms in North Carolina.
Avocados bolster Vermont’s economy.
Potatoland is wisely abandoned.
The Big 林檎, アップル is renamed the Big Rutabaga.
Arugula, eggplant, avocado, and now rutabaga. As the 一覧 of vegetables that ヒイラギ, ホリー did not plant grows longer, she concludes that the giant specimens are not the results of her experiment.
もっと見る curious than disappointed, ヒイラギ, ホリー asks herself, “What happened to my vegetables?
“And whose ブロッコリ, ブロッコリー is in my backyard?”
The place is the ionosphere. On June 29, the Arcturian starcuriser Alula Borealis was touring its sixth planet in four days, and the captain had just pointed out the fjords または Norway off the port side.
In the galley an assistant fry cook accidentally jettisoned the entire 食 supply. As their vegetables drifted toward the small blue planet below, everyone on board had the same thought: Where would their 晩餐, 夕食 come from?
