Beauty in the Vegetable Garden

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. And it may have been forgotten, in the joy and fascination of coaxing forth the first plants in our garden, that the gate was an old gate, makeshift and unattractive, and that we hadn't been quite as neat as we might have been about clearing away the rubbish, the ashes and old tin cans which were all too obvious to the friends who visited our vegetable garden.