The gardener and the cook / by Lucy H. Yates.

  • Yates, Lucy H. (Lucy Helen)
Date:
1912
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Credit: The gardener and the cook / by Lucy H. Yates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A little garden walled around. Chosen and made peculiar ground, and was, I considered, in every respect an ideal kitchen-garden. When I first introduced Charlemagne to this domain I did so with feelings of entire satisfaction. He allowed that it might become a decent garden in time—in course of time. I doubted not that his imperial mind was capable of dealing with a more expansive field; nevertheless it was important that he should grasp all the possibilities which I myself foresaw before he attempted conquests beyond this territory. I explained to Charlemagne that it was our intention to live principally upon vegetables and fruit; that simple diet, with very little meat, was essential to our health ; that Charlotte, the cook, was an importation from France, and would re- quire many things to be grown for her to which