Nurseries at Ftilham, Deptford^ etc. 1 8 1 



for the market is carried on to a greater extent than 

 in any other in the kingdom. The quantity occupied 

 by market-gardeners only is about eight hundred 

 acres, to which may be added nearly two hundred 

 more, cultivated for the market by farming gardeners. 



"The cultivation of asparagus is carried on to the 

 greatest extent in the parishes of Deptford St. Paul's, 

 Chiswick, Battersea, and Mortlake, there being about 

 1 80 acres of it in the four parishes, of which about 

 seventy are in Mortlake, which may be said to pro- 

 duce a greater quantity of that vegetable than any 

 parish in England. 



" Deptford is famous also for the culture of onions 

 for seed, of which there are on an average about 

 twenty acres. About ten acres are cultivated for this 

 purpose in the parishes of Mortlake and Barnes. . . . 



" The average rent of garden -ground, in most of 

 the parishes near London, is now 4. per acre. " 



