THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



tanical and scientific names of the various adulter- 

 ants convey little or no meaning to the average 

 consumer. Still, anything in tin that has come 

 through the government inspections and the wide 

 publicity given the unsavoury details by the press 

 of the country, is looked upon with a certain 

 amount of suspicion by the general public. 



The result of this suspicion has been to increase, 

 in no small degree, the consumption of fresh 

 fruits and vegetables by all classes. One naturally 

 has confidence in anything which comes to her in its 

 original form. It does not seem possible for any- 

 thing to be other than it seems, and of this class 

 of products the most inexperienced housewife feels 

 confident to judge. If a cabbage is clean and 

 bright the outer leaves green and fresh, the in- 

 side fresh and crisp what more could one ask? 

 Well, to the initiated there does sometimes arise 

 a question as to how all this immaculate crispness 

 and freedom from the trail of the worm was 

 attained. After even a few years' experience in the 

 growing of cabbages and allied plants, one comes 

 to know that their growing on any large scale, 

 especially on old land, is not the simple or always 



the cleanly thing it seems. 



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