846 Report upon the Market-garden, and 
thousands in small frames with a little heat from manure under 
them, that had been transplanted from the seed-bed, and were 
ready to go out into their places on the land, being splendid 
plants, showing no tendency to " run," and having well paid for 
their intermediate transplantation. 
It was a novel experience to find two acres covered with 
mint, with an abundance of leaves that seemed sufficient to 
supply all the lamb eaters in London with mint sauce. Although 
this bed of mint was only two years old it was doomed to be 
dug up this summer, and tiny shootlets were being taken from 
it and set 9 inches by 3 inches apart, in an adjoining piece of 
land to form a new bed. It was suggested that it was a pity to 
destroy such a wealth of mint, but Mr. Lancaster inferred that he 
had already found it a satisfactory and sufficient mint of wealth. 
There were three acres of sea-kale, six acres of horse-radish, 
which thrives upon this soil, one acre of parsley, patches of beet, 
and of cabbages for pickling, and large beds of rhubarb, and 
divers other things, all of which are shown as in situ upon the 
plan (p. 847) of this market-garden. Among the material 
cabbages and cauliflowers were plots of ground devoted to moss- 
rose bushes, which were just bursting into buds to adorn the 
button-holes of London beaux. 
The rhubarb plants are a sight to be seen, having elaborately 
serrated leaves, and are handsome enough for ornamental shrubs. 
It is a peculiar sort of rhubarb, and the Judges saw nothing like 
it in their travels. Mr. Lancaster grows it about four feet 
apart, and strips the plants bare of leaves twice and sometimes 
thrice in a season, leaving nothing but the main stem. Like 
all the other crops grown on this market-garden, the rhubarb is 
well manured each year with London manure. 
As Mr. Lancaster does not indulge in the luxury of accounts, 
being, as he said, too tired to write after his marketing, for he 
and his daughter sell all his produce, no definite notion of the 
quantity of manure bought in a year could be obtained. Neither 
could the Judges get any precise information as to the cost of 
labour, but they were assured, and can well believe from the 
amount of work that is entailed by such crops as radishes, 
celery, and lettuce, that the labour comes to 50/. per %eek 
during the summer and autumn months. Labour wages are 
rather higher than at Barking. Carters and skilled hands get 
from 20s. to 245. per week. Ordinary labourers get 18s. per 
week, and both these and skilled labourers make considerably 
more at piece-work. Women earn 2s., 3s., and even 4s. per 
day. Seven horses of a good stamp are kept, which do all the 
work on the market-garden and take the vegetables to the 
