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"being in May and June. Malaga lemons arc received from Octo- 

 ber until March. 



Melons — We include these, among the fruits. Water melons 

 come in sparingly from the West Indies, the last of May and early 

 in June, followed by Virginia melons, the middle of July, and 

 from Maryland the 1st of August. New Jersey melons begin 

 about the middle of August, and they remain on sale through Sep- 

 tember. Nutmeg or citron melons arrive from Viririnia about the 

 20th of July, and from eastern Maryland soon after. New Jersey 

 and Delaware furnish the majority of this fruit, from about the 

 middle of August until the 10th of Septeni1)er — often much later. 



jVectarines are so little seen in market, that few know them, and 

 even then take them for peaches. The lirst receipts were formerly 

 frt)m South Carolina about the 10th of July. A few arrive from 

 Virsfinia from the middle to the 20Lh of the month, and the liirht 

 supply of Delaware and Jersey fruit is in the market the last of 

 August and early in September. A few are grown along the 

 Hudson River. 



Oi'unges — Havana fruit begins to arrive about New Years and 

 continues until the middle of April. Sicily oranges are in market 

 from January to August — sometimes later. A few oranges are 

 raised in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, but seldom tind 

 their way here. 



Peaches are never too early, or continue too late, and though very 

 abundant some seasons, people rarely tire of them. They are 

 emphatically the fruit, and during their season little else in the 

 way of fruit is desired. In the " olden time " — all the good things 

 of which, are about to be realized again — our first peaches were 

 from South Carolina, received here about the 20th of June. Vir- 

 ginia fruit began to arrive the" 12th of July, Delaware peaches 

 August 1, and New Jersey fruit the middle of the month. The 

 markets are usually supplied up to the 1st of October, and eveii 

 later. The greatest abundance is from August 20 until about the 

 10th of September. 



Pears "from South Carolina and Georgia began to arrive in 

 former years July 15 ; from Virginia the last of the month, and 

 soon after from Delaware and New Jersey. If the earlij fruit were 

 sent from the south, it might reach here in June even, but pears 

 do not sell well until the glut of peaches is over. They are in the 

 greatest abundance in Septeml)er, and continue until February, 

 thoui>i;li scarce after the middle of November. 



