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of Paris is fifty-seven pounds yearly (a little over a pound 
weight each per week), whilst the population of 
London consumes only seventeen pounds weight of 
tomatoes per head in twelve months. In short, potatoes 
seem one of the favourite vegetables of the Londoner, 
and tomatoes that of the Parisian. A walk into the 
Stabroek market will speedily convince any one that a 
number of different kinds of tomatoes are grown here ; 
and in this also the Botanic gardens might be of use, 
in ascertaining, and propagating the very best kinds, and 
also by explaining how best to rear them. That they 
are a very valuable vegetable, or fruit, is quite certain. 
Of apples, pears and other fruits, the consumption in 
Parisper head of the population, far exceeds that in London- 
Each Parisian is estimated to eat in a year, one hundred 
and forty-five pounds of apples. One hundred and seventy 
pounds of pears, and about two-hundred w 7 eight of plums, 
strawberries, raspberries and cherries. The Londoner, on 
the other hand, is content in the same period of time with 
sixty-five pounds of apples, thirty-nine pounds of pears, 
and about a quarter of an hundred weight of plums, 
cherries, strawberries, raspberries and currants. 
Apples from the United States now form one of our 
regular imports, and find purchasers among all classes of 
our population ; but the quantity so imported, and also 
of pears, and grapes, does not appear in the records con- 
tained in the Blue-Book. 
From the foregoing it is evident that the inhabitants of 
the much colder cities of London and Paris, partake every 
year of a much larger quantity of fruit than do the resi- 
dents in the tropical city of Georgetown, British Guiana. 
