"The market gardeners of London," says a gardener of judgment, ' are skillful, industrious men. Some time ago I was engaged for three or four months along side a market garden of twelve or fifteen acres in the neighborhood; things were exceedingly well done. In it there were small frames to the number of fifty or sixty lights, the greater part of which were full of young lettuces sown in November as thickly as mustard and cress. The lights of course were off in the day, and the young stuff looked green and beautiful. The greater part of the garden or land, which is light and workable at all times, had been turned up to the weather. About the 1st of March they put about half of the. garden in long beds six feet wide, and about eighteen inches apart. These were sown with turnip radish seed, a bushel to the acre, and finished well. Two lads with pistols and rattles, and voices strong enough, were employed running up and down the garden to keep the birds off.

"The men next nicely smoothed the other half of the ground with rakes, for the reception of the lettuces, the London or Brighton cos, which were planted a foot apart all ways. They were planted so beautifully and exactly that they seemed to be in straight rows from ail points of view. The frames were then pat on half sunk new beds of warm dung, and into them were planted cucumber plants which thrived and bore well; a money-making crop. The radishes were ready about the first week in May, if I remember aright, and sold for 40l. an acre; twelve or thirteen women were employed in bunching them. The lettuces were soon ready; got a bit of bast about them a few hours before they were pulled, and sent to Covent Garden; brought 10l. an acre more than the radishes. Vegetable marrow succeeded the radishes, and French beans the lettuces, generally speaking. After these came a crop of cabbage, or what are called coleworts, for winter. There were small patches of other vegetables - here a bed of rhubarb, there a corner of cauliflower, and just against the gate a rood of ten-week stock, the double ones for cut flowers and the single ones for seed".