Home-grown fruit is always preferable to the half-ripe produce which is imported from abroad, and the additional work required for keeping a young plant under glass is largely repaid by the incomparable superiority of the crops.
Kropotkin emphasizes the superiority of locally grown produce over imported goods.
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