[Picture: Covent Garden]
Now we have a view of Covent Garden Market, where plants, fruit, and
flowers of every kind, are brought for sale from the country. By four
o’clock in a summer’s morning, it is completely full of the most rare and
beautiful plants that can be grown in England, either in open nurseries,
or in the hot-house and green-house: and, what with the number of busy
people buying and selling; the carts going to and fro, laden with
flowers, fruit, and vegetables of all sorts; the beauty and gaiety of the
different plants, and the sweetness of their odours, it is altogether a
most delightful scene. The Londoners cannot take a country walk whenever
they please, and enjoy the green fields and wild hedge-flowers, in the
open air; but they may supply themselves here with every kind of
beautiful plants, for a garden within doors; and to those who have a
little knowledge of botany, it must be not only an entertaining, but even
a useful amusement.