Punch,  6 (1844), 106.

Protection to Agriculture

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Agriculture, Horticulture


    Descibes the charter of a new league formed to 'protect the cultivators of earth-grown water-cress against the competition of the artificial vegetable produced in ordinary slop-basins'. Various arguments are advanced against growing vegetables in slop basins.



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