Download or read book The English Vegetable Garden (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Vegetable Garden 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 least 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 culti vation of vegetables he will be the gainer thereby. 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.