Vegetables.

60,500,000 lbs. of potatoes, at 5lbs. for 2d. £100,800 23,760,000 cabbages, at 1/2d. each 49,500 3,264,800 turnips, at 1-1/2d. per doz. 1,700 601,000 carrots, at 2-1/2d. per doz. 520 567,300 brocoli and cauliflowers, at 1d. per head 2,360 616,666 junks of turnip tops, at 4d. per junk 10,270 219,000 bushels of peas, at 1s. 6d. per bushel 16,420 8,890 bushels of beans, at 1s. 6d. per bushel 660 22,110 bushels of French beans, at 6d. per peck, or 2s. per bushel 2,210 25,608 vegetable marrows, at 1/2d. each 50 489 dozen bundles of asparagus, at 2s. 6d. per bundle (4d. or 6d. a doz. heads) 730 9,120 dozen bundles of rhubarb, at 2s. 6d. per doz. 1,140 4,350 dozen bundles of celery, at 3d. per bundle 650 561,602 lettuces, at 3 a penny 780 13,291 dozen hands of radishes, at 3 bunches for 1d., and 6 bunches to the hand 1,330 499,530 bushels of onions, at 4s. per bushel 99,900 10,920 bushels of cucumbers, at 1d. each (60 to the bush.) 2,730 3,290 dozen bundles of herbs, at 3d. a bundle 490 -------- Total expended yearly in vegetables £292,240

Putting the above sums together we have the following aggregate result:--

Expended yearly in green fruit £332,400 Expended yearly in dry fruit 1,000 Expended yearly in vegetables 292,240 -------- Gross sum taken annually by the } London costermongers for fruit } £625,640 and vegetables }

Then adding the above to the gross amount received by the street-sellers of fish, which we have before seen comes to as much as £1,460,850, we have for the annual income of the London costermongers no less a sum than £2,086,490.