. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. THE QUEENS SEEDSMEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. THE SATURDAY, JANUARY2^, 1880. STREET PEARS. THE streets of London are full of interest tothe philosopher, the social reformer, thepolitician, and the moralist. They teem withhuman life in manifold manifestations : thewealthy and the poor, the happy and the miser-able, the good and the bad, jostle against eachother and pass their several ways with butlittle knowledge of each others circumstancesand needs. In the streets of London thousandsof persons find a
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. THE QUEENS SEEDSMEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. THE SATURDAY, JANUARY2^, 1880. STREET PEARS. THE streets of London are full of interest tothe philosopher, the social reformer, thepolitician, and the moralist. They teem withhuman life in manifold manifestations : thewealthy and the poor, the happy and the miser-able, the good and the bad, jostle against eachother and pass their several ways with butlittle knowledge of each others circumstancesand needs. In the streets of London thousandsof persons find a means of livelihood, but ofthe many modes by which a subsistence isearned that having perhaps the largest amountof interest for horticulturists is the selling offruit. The quantities of fruit sold in the Londonstreets in a season when it is at all plentiful andcan be readily obtained and disposed of atremunerative prices, is perfectly the statistics put into the form of figuresand presented in totals their amounts wouldsavour of the incredible. The year 1879 haspassed away never to return, with many sinsof omission a
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