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produce of Hungary. As to Spanish onions the supply is rapidly 
increasing, and the price rapidly falling. Cases which not many years 
ago fetched 14s, 16s., 18s, and 21s. are now a days bought in the 
market as low as from 5s. to 8s. From Western Flanders, vić Ostend, 
the freights of the savoury root are small compared = those bags which 
are br rought vid Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Hamburg. The earliest 
spring produce, as may be expected, comes wd Paris, from the Riviera. 
Foreign cabbages are not much valued in our high-class markets. 
Yet it must be owned that the poor would be badly off indeed for 
this healthy vegetable if they relied only on the English growth, 
which, at the earliest seasons of the year, would be quite beyond the 
for the difference in price between the home growth and the foreign 
importation, there is much discussion. The retail dealer knows, however, 
that a cabbage is dese a cabbage, and if it be fairly sweet, there is not 
much to be complained a The red pickling cabbages find their way to 
our ports during the month of August, in large quantities, from Holland, 
vid Rotterdam, as also sees the bulk of the beetroot supply. Cauliflowers 
produce of our southern counties and parts of Essex. The great 
Le eran d the cauliflower in the market is due to its rapid growth, 
a good crop being easily obtained three months after planting out—say, 
from the beginning of April to the end of June. Imported brocoli, owing 
to its hardiness and much slower growth, keeps for many months on the 
market, though never realising great sales. 
Celery, which is now more than ever in demand, as can be easily seen 
by the enormous quantities offered for sale on the street stalls, is, in 
almost all cases, of home growth. Indeed, it is on record that, at odd 
times, fairly large quantities have been exported to Paris itsclf, our 
greatest rival in the vegetable market. But of all the vegetable trades, 
the tomato has, undoubtedly, made the longest strides—a curious 
exception to the conservative taste of the English poor. Fifteen to 
20 years ago working folk had a es aversion to the rosy love- 
apple, and yet now, cut up raw with onions and eaten with goes 
ive ix thou cases of the middling class vegetable (it is Pen 
regarded as fruit in the market) have been knoc n by auction at 
one rostrum in a few hours. It may be fairly stated that 10, 
cases are n as against the 1 S or SO 
the te price of freight is, on the average, 80s. per ton as My 
cargo, or on deck 35s. or 405. Still it must be owned that owing to the 
caterpillar scourge of this season the Cape tomatoes have really not had 
a fair chance of holding their own. 
