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Report upon the Market-garden, and 
Borougli and Spitalfields Markets in the summer, and the celery 
to Covent Garden in the winter, when it sells best. The 
buildings are suitable and in good repair, and there are capital 
sheds for preparing and washing the vegetables for market, 
fitted up with boilers for heating water for washing the celery 
and radishes, which is a great comfort to the women in cold 
weather, and causes them to wash the celery better. There 
was a want of neatness about the whole garden, owing in a 
degree to its being surrounded by gasworks, lines of railway, 
land recently taken for building purposes, sewers, drains, and 
ditches. Disjecta membra of old machines and " fancy " im- 
plements were scattered about in some confusion, but the land 
itself was clean and well cultivated, and evidently was yielding 
a handsome return. 
By dint of putting this and that fact together it was 
gathered that an average crop of radishes sown between the 
celery would make at least 28/. per acre : say 1100 dozen bunches 
at Qd. per dozen ; and the celery, planted in the rows between 
the beds of radishes, would make from 50Z. to 60/. per acre, 
taking an average of seasons : say from 1000 to 1200 bunches 
at 12s. per dozen bunches. Again, taking lettuces and celery 
together, an average crop of lettuces, grown as Mr. Lancaster 
grows them, would be worth about 30/. per acre. Or a crop of 
coleworts and cabbages grown with celery would be worth from 
25/. to 30/. per acre, plus the value of the celery crop ; so that 
even if the expenses amount to 40/. per acre, there is still a 
good margin of profit. 
Mr. Lancaster grows his own seed, and is most particular in 
keeping his sorts distinct and true. He has improved his 
various kinds of vegetables by selection, by sowing the seed from 
the best plants with the required characteristics most strongly 
marked. His celery, as has been mentioned above, is of par- 
ticular excellence, and is well known in the London markets. 
Being of a good type, and carefully prepared for market, it 
generally makes rather more money than that grown by other 
market-gardeners. The Judges were much struck with the 
energy and skill displayed in the management of this market- 
garden, as well as with the manifold indications of large jfrofits 
made upon it. Much courage, capital, and ingenuity were 
required to change ordinary meadows in such a situation and 
with such surroundings into a garden of cucumbers — a very 
oasis in a wilderness of building land. The first prize in this 
class is well deserved by Mr. Lancaster, who has brought about 
this transformation. It should be mentioned, as a proof of 
the " culture " of market-gardeners, in Mr. Matthew Arnold's 
meaning of the term, that Mr. Lancaster has a large collection 
