14 JANUARY 1938, Page 6

I ought never to have mentioned cauliflowers. I know nothing

about them—nothing at all. And when I suggested that a cauliflower that brings the grower in an eighth of a penny and sells eventually for 7d. owes a considerable part of the accretion to the cost of transport I was evidently talking nonsense. Cauliflowers, I am credibly informed (at least, I assume credibly), travel in luxury from Penzance to Pad- dington at id. a head. That I get from one correspondent ; • another scouts the idea of so low a price as an eighth of a penny except in abnormal circumstances. Lewis Carroll wrote of cabbages and kings ; cauliflowers would have scanned just as well, but he avoided them. How wise.

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