Most Important Notes on How to Preserve

Be careful in your selection.  Do not choose one too young or too set in his ways.  When once selected, give your entire attention to preparation.  Some insist on keeping them in a pickle, others are constantly keeping them in hot water.  This makes them sour, hard and sometimes bitter.  Even poor varieties can be made sweet, tender and good by garnishing them generously with patience, well-sweetened with love and seasoned with kisses.  Wrap them in a permanent and constantly refreshed mantle of charity.  Keep them warm with a steady fire of devotion; serve with peaches and cream.  Thus prepared, the best husbands will keep for years and grow steadily more wonderful.