Excerpt from The Home Garden: A Book on Vegetable and Small-Fruit Growing, for the Use of the Amateur Gardener Second - Persons who are fond of vegetables frequently have reason to complain of the lack of freshness and flavor of those bought. It stands to reason that they cannot retain their best qualities for several days, no matter how carefully they may be kept. Because of this drawback, those who would otherwise use vegetables liberally in the household go with out them. Consequently, in order to get fine, Third - Often the appetite of the family fails when confined to a narrow diet. Things don't taste good, they say. Let's have a change. If plenty of good vegetables were used, there need be no complaint of this kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.