750 = 454 
Vegetables. 
Vegetables 
cultivated in 
special 
districts. 
Essex area. 
Middlese.x area, 
Kent area. 
Acreages of 
chief counties 
producing 
vegetables. 
London markets from 4 to 5 o'clock A.M., being sent thus ea] 
in order that they may be fresh and crisp. 
Within the charmed circle appropriated to spade husbaiw 
the more delicate vegetables are grown, such as asparagus, s 
kale, brocoli, cauliflowers, French beans, celery, radishes, lettut! 
mustard, and cress. Many of these require careful manageme! 
and to be forced in frames in the early part of the season. 
Without the circle, cabbages, collards, or young cabbages I 
before the heart is formed, peas, beans, onions, Brussels sproi! 
cauliflowers, and purple sprouting brocoli — a most v^ua^ 
vegetable either cut as greens, or later as brocoli heads, — i\ 
turnips, are principally grown. 
Besides all this, the produce of what may be called the legitimi 
market-garden and vegetable-farm, peas, early potatoes, cabba^] 
turnips, carrots, and onions are grown in all parts of the counv 
by fits and starts, according to the probable demand ; and 
certain places special vegetables only are produced, as, 
example, onions at Biggleswade and Sandy, in Bedfordsl 
cauliflowers at Mount Sorrel, in Leicestershire ; brocoli in Cc 
wall ; carrots in parts of Surrey and Wiltshire. Many farn s 
also grow early potatoes, especially in Cheshire, Lancash , 
Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire. Potatoes are also universiy 
cultivated as a farm crop, being stored to supply the markets. 
The business of market-gardening and vegetable-farming r 
the supply of London is carried on in Essex, on the north-east i 
side of London, in the district from West Ham and Stratfi , 
along the left bank of the Thames to Grays, on alluvial soil wh: ., 
from its light texture and gravelly subsoil, is peculiarly sui 1 
for the growth of vegetables. Also in Essex, upon the be r 
soils of the London clay, in the neighbourhood of Romford, 1 
as far from London as Colchester. It is confined in Middle x 
to the south-western quarter of the county, as at Brentford i 
Twickenham, where the soil is a sandy loam with a subsoil if 
gravel resting upon the London clay ; and in Surrey to the Lon Q 
clay and the alluvial deposits upon the banks of the River Tha $ 
and Mole. The market-gardens in Kent are ^situated on e 
right bank of the Thames, and extend, longis intervallis. o 
Gravesend. The soil is alluvium, of the same kind as that n 
the left or Essex bank of the river, and the clays of the (1^ 
haven beds and Thanet beds, Avhich crop up here, are i 
adapted for vegetables as well as for fruit-growing. 
Besides the market-gardens near the metropolis, whoso m( 
of cropping and of general management are fully explained her 
many other counties have a small extent of land devoted to 
production of vegetables for market, situated for the most )i 
near their chief towns. As their systems are the same as tl 
