10 Metaphors for vegetables

THE TOMATO, OR LOVE-APPLE.This vegetable is a native of Mexico and South America, but is also found in the East Indies, where it is supposed to have been introduced by the Spaniards.

THE TURNIP.This vegetable is the Brassica Rapa of science, and grows wild in England, but cannot be brought exactly to resemble what it becomes in a cultivated state.

From the most ancient historical documents we find that at the very earliest period of the French monarchy, fresh and dried vegetables were the ordinary food of the population.

THE VEGETABLE MARROW.This is a variety of the gourd family, brought from Persia by an East-India ship, and only recently introduced to Britain.

The scorching furnace-breath winds shrivelled every blade of grass, dust and the moan of starving stock filled the air, vegetables became a thing of the past.

The only vegetables obtained were a few nettles and wild garlic, but Burney says that at the back of the village was a plantation of cherry trees, gooseberries and currants, raspberries and strawberries, "but unluckily for us none of them in season."

Vegetable and animal life are essential features of the geography of the world, and considerable time should be given to the study of those within the observation of the pupils.

This vegetable is an indispensable accompaniment to boiled beef.

Vegetables are by no means the most nutritious diet, as water enters largely into their composition; but food to supply perfectly the needs of the vital economy, must contain water and indigestible as well as nutritive elements.

The vegetables were capsicums, cucumbers, yams, sweet-potatoes, garlic, onions, edible fern-roots, and radishes of the salmon variety, but thicker and more acrid in flavor.

10 Metaphors for  vegetables