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#ho have followed them as colonists, have shown them- 
selves to be. 
The Editor of the Horticultural Times has published 
the results of a series of enquiries into the relative con- 
sumption of vegetables and fruit in the two great cities of 
London and Paris. From which we learn that whilst each 
Londoner eats yearly, one hundred and seventy pounds of 
potatoes, the Parisian consumes only forty-nine pounds. 
From the Blue-Book of British Guiana for 1886, it 
appears, that nearly thirty-six thousand hampers, baskets 
and barrels of potatoes, of the value of forty thousand, 
three hundred and sixty-eight dollars, were consumed 
last year by our population of, say, two hundred and 
seventy thousand persons. In addition to the foregoing 
there were also imported, seven thousand, five hundred 
and seventy-two packages of "ground provisions", valued 
at eleven thousand, four hundred and fifteen dollars. 
The Londoner also consumes thirty-three pounds 
of onions every year, whilst the quantity used by 
the Parisian is only four pounds. Garlic is largely 
used for flavouring purposes in France, and this may 
somewhat account for the great difference in the con- 
sumption of onions by the inhabitants, respe6lively, of 
Paris and London. 
In this colony last year, seven hundred and sixty-four 
thousand, two hundred and thirty-four pounds of onions 
were used, being upwards of three pounds per head of 
the whole population. 
In the purchase of cabbages, turnips, and cucumbers, 
the Londoner is also far ahead of the Parisian. But 
when the heading " Tomatoes," is reached, we see that 
the tables are turned, and the supply for each inhabitant 
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