ABSTRACT
I now proceed to show the vastness, the regularity, and the excellence of the supply of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to the green markets of the metropolis. The markets employed, on a large and wholesale scale, for the furtherance of the important traffic I am about to describe are Coventgarden, the Borough, Spitalftelds, Farringdon, and Portman. Of these the Borough market is the oldest, and Farringdon the most recent. Hungerford market, in its present state, was opened nearly seven years later than Farringdon, but as it is an old market in a new form, it cannot be classed as recent.
