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season are approximately 1,400 tons. From still another 

 station in the same district, Warboys, there is des- 

 patched the product of about 150 acres of celery. 



Nottinghamshire is another large producer of celery, 

 and increasing quantities are being grown around 

 Manchester. At Ashton Moss land to the extent of 

 about 1 20 acres, formerly used for wheat-growing, is 

 now devoted to celery, large quantities of which are 

 sent into the Manchester market and district. Sale, 

 Timperley, Irlam, and other places in the district, are 

 also producing heavily, and a considerable expansion 

 in celery -growing is expected on the Manchester 

 Corporation's estate at Carrington Moss. 



In a ' record ' year the Great Eastern Railway Com- 

 pany have brought to London a total of no fewer than 

 14,000 tons of green peas for human consumption. 

 The average for a period of ten years was 11,000 tons, 

 and of this quantity between 9,000 and 10,000 tons would 

 come from that section of the county of Essex forming 

 the area between the towns of Braintree, Maldon, 

 and Kelvedon, and the coast. Commencing about the 

 second week in June, and continuing until towards the 

 end of July, according to the season, four ' green-pea 

 specials ' will run every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 

 and Thursday to bring the peas to London. Each 

 special consists of about 30 waggons, and each waggon 

 will have from 2 tons to 2\ tons of green peas. The 

 consignments begin to arrive at Bishopsgate between 

 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., and the delivery to the markets 

 goes on up to 6 a.m. or 7 a.m., some 300 and 400 van- 

 loads being sent out between these hours. As many as 

 950 tons of green peas have thus been dealt with in the 

 course of Friday night and Saturday morning. The 



