I asked myself, “What is a Cane Garden?” I was picturing a garden for growing rattan for making canes to help us walk, with a section for growing crutches at the far end, and a little patch for growing the rubber tips. I looked it up. It seems to be taken from Cane Garden Bay, in the British Virgin Islands, which I read is named after a plantation of sugar cane surrounding the plantation house of the owner. Not a picturesque garden. A working garden. So as you play, imagine people with machetes working in the cane garden, burning and then cutting the cane, then pressing it to make cane juice, molasses, sugar, and rum. Then sit on the veranda with a rum and coke and smile.
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