Carrot

At last it is December and the end of the London carrot harvest. For weeks the carrotjacks have been swinging their axes against the sturdy orange trunks. Choker setters have been attaching steel cables to the downed carrots, before dragging them to the landings by the Thames. Once rolled into the water the giant vegetables are the responsibility of carrot drivers, who balancing on the Daucus giganticus, guide them down the river under the charge of the walking boss. 

Here we see an errant carrot, awaiting rounding up by the 'jam' crew before being reunited with the other root vegetables on their way to the Essex dicing mills.