Water Cress Collection

Watercress Girls / 1882
Watercress girls buying their stock at Farringdon Market in London

London / Cries / Watercress
The watercress seller

Curtis British Entomology Plate 474
Coleoptera: Hallomenus flexuosus = Abdera flexuosa (Banded Hallomenus) [Plant: Rorippa sylvestris (Sisymbrium sylvestre, Creeping Water-cress)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 201
Lepidoptera: Melia flammea = Senta (Mythimna) flammea (Flame Wainscot) [Plant: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (Sisymbrium nasturtium, Water-cress)] Date: 1824-39

Watercress Bed
A Watercress Bed at Walesby, Nottinghamshire, England, a new venture by an enterprising local farmer. Date: 1930s

Watercress Seller
A woman with a basket of watercress over her arm and a small child, perhaps her son, at her side, cries Come buy my water cresses to attract custom; she has found a buyer

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