The Mullik Ghat Flower market under the Howrah Bridge beside the Hooghly River is Asia's largest whole sale flower market. Where the city's floral retailers buy their fresh merchandise. Buyers and sellers are constantly running through the narrow lanes of the Flower Market with humungous loads on their heads. piles of animal and human excrement. Approximately 2,000 flower growers from the surrounding areas come daily to sell and during wedding seasons and festivals, probably double that number.