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luxury has increased also ; and from time to time 

 fields have in consequence been converted into 

 garden-ground, till a considerable proportion of the 

 land within a few miles of London became occupied 

 for that purpose. The culture of garden-ground is 

 principally confined to those parishes which lie within 

 a moderate distance of the river, on account of the 

 convenience of water carriage for manure, which 

 since the prodigious increase of carriages, as well 

 of hackney and stage coaches, as of those kept by 

 private families, is procured in great abundance from 

 the London stables. 



" By a general calculation, founded upon inquiries 

 made in each parish, it appears that there are about 

 five thousand acres within twelve miles of the 

 metropolis constantly cultivated for the supply of 

 the London markets with garden vegetables, exclusive 

 of about eight hundred acres cropped with fruit of 

 various kinds, and about 1,700 acres cultivated for 

 potatoes. Besides which there are perhaps 1,200 

 acres cropped with various garden vegetables for the 

 food of cattle, principally cows. This culture is 

 carried on most extensively in the parishes of 

 Camberwell and Deptford St. Paul's, by persons who 

 are called farming gardeners. Their method is to 

 manure their land to the highest pitch of cultivation 

 for garden crops, both for the market and for cattle, 

 after a succession of which they refresh it by sowing 

 it with corn. 



" In the parish of Fulham the cultivation of gardens 



