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WATER-CRESS WREATHS.
FOR "MARKETS QUEEN."
LONDON, October 6. "You'll have a wreath of watercress when you are dead." Thus her sons and daughters had chaffed Elizabeth James, the "watercress queen," who for 50 years has been he best-known and best-loved seller at the Covent Garden markets.
To-day, aristocrats in Rolls-Royces, and costermongers in donkey-barrows, attended her funeral, and reverently placed wreaths of water-cress in the centre of many others.
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Shannon News, 18 October 1927, Page 3
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69WATER-CRESS WREATHS. Shannon News, 18 October 1927, Page 3
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