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From ‘Street Life in London’, 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith …How different is the Covent garden of to-day, with its bustle and din, its wealth and pauperism, its artifices, its hot-house flowers and forced fruit, its camellias with wire stems, its exotics from far-off climes, to "the fair-spreading pastures," measuring, according to the ...

From ‘Street Life in London’, 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. “…the accompanying photograph represents a group of labourers who are in the service of Mr. Dickson, the well-known florist. Their business is strictly limited to flowers, and they ...