CHAPTER XII 



FRESH VEGETABLES THE YEAR ROUND 



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Lettuce all winter — big solid heads 

 that are crisp and crackly, just like 

 those from your spring garden. 



If you think that 

 clean, fresh vege- 

 tables from your 

 ,^ own garden out- 

 T^ class the things you 

 buy in the market — 

 then you just want 

 to try your own 

 glass -garden -grown 

 Lettuce, Radishes, 

 or Tomatoes, in 

 winter! A Radish when it is wilted is a shoe- 

 leather substitute. A Tomato that has been 

 picked green and shipped five hundred miles to 

 market and "ripened" in a heated store-room 

 is vastly unlike the crimson globe of juicy good- 

 ness that is grown on a vine in the sun in your 

 glass garden until it is ready to come off at a 

 touch. There is only one way to have real 

 vegetables in winter — and that is to grow them 

 in your greenhouse. 



And when it comes to the little personal gifts 



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