Picked and plucked garden fruit

The mass of mankind may be so indifferent to the productions of a garden, that they hardly deserve to enjoy its choicest luxuries. There are many who would not know the difference betwixt a peach gathered and one that had fallen from the tree; or betwixt the strawberries plucked from the bed, and those brought from a fruit-shop, perhaps, gathered with unwashed hands the day before.