Excerpt from The English Vegetable Garden
None of the products of the garden have a greater value than vegetables, if these are cooked and eaten while fresh; if, however, their transit from the garden to the table is delayed, as inevitably it must be when the vegetables have to pass through the hands of several dealers before they finally reach the consumer, they lose some at lest of their best qualities. There is no comparison, either as regards their palatableness or health-giving qualities, between vegetables freshly gathered and those that have passed through the hands of the grower and the wholesale salesman and are finally bought from the greengrocer. Every one then who has a garden, even if it is small, should devote at least a part of it to the cultivation of vegetables; he will be the gainer thereby in more ways than one.
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