london078 The Flowergirl Throughout the period when the fruit and vegetable market was resident in the Piazza the square was also home to a healthy population of poor girls selling flowers. These girls were largely orphans or forsaken, but in Covent Garden they could make a dignified living in the Piazza by selling with their guile and gamely charms. The Floral Hall used to have a fine array of unusual blooms from across Europe which traders would sell to florists and, at the close of trading, the remaining, unsold, shadier flowers were gathered up by these flowergirls who would spruce them up to make posies which they'd hawk to the evening opera goers for a couple of pennies a throw. The sixth statue commemorates Eliza Doolittle, the most famous flowergirl of them all who caught Professor Higgins' attention in the stage musical and film 'My Fair Lady' which begins and ends in Covent Garden. For many years 'umble girls like Eliza would be seen on the Piazza looking to sell a posy for the lady; a nosegay for the gentleman. Although Eliza is a fictional character, she is an accurate depiction of the indelicate but good-hearted girls who made the Piazza their home.