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appearance of the long-rooted sorts; in the summer they answer very 

 well. Cauliflowers occasionally come to hand, but not in any quantity. 

 Of Brocolis we have seen none this winter. Lettuce is now more plen- 

 tiful, and very handsome heads of the curled Silesia are of fine size. 

 There is no celery of any consequence in the market; such as is to be 

 had is very small, and scarcely fit for the table; it is for the interest 

 of marketmen to raise this excellent vegetable to greater perfection. 



We have never known the time when squashes have commanded the 

 prices that they now do. It certainly is a singular anomaly to find veg- 

 etables selling at the same rate that provisions are, and this, too, at a 

 time when the latter are uncommonly high; yet, within the ])ast week 

 or two, some few of the counnon crooknecks, not any way remarkable 

 for their quality, have bee.n sold at our highest quotations. We have, 

 as yet, no arrivals from the West Indies. 



Apples are quite plentiful, and prices moderate, not having advan- 

 ced, as is generally the case, so late in the season as this. We have yet 

 on hand excellent bellflowers, and irolden pippins in prime order. The 

 Chaumontel pears, and a kind called the " Winter Katins," are all 

 that are now to be had; the latter is a small hard pear, breaking, quite 

 inferior. What pine apples are in the market were brought from New 

 York; but they are poor. Of oranges and lemons there has been sev- 

 eral late arrivals, and they are now quite plentiful; they came in prime 

 order. Grapes are nearly gone, — those left on hand are inferior. Chest- 

 nuts are about out of the market, — Yours, M. T., Boston, Feb. '21st, 

 1837. 



HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA 



FOR MARCH. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape vines in green-houses and graperies will be now pushing rap- 

 idly: in some they will probably be showing very distinctly their flower- 

 buds, and in others just bnrsting their eyes, according to the tempera- 

 ture at which the houses are kept. Begin to syringe them twice a 

 week, and cut out all weak shoots. Keep them tied neatly up to the 

 trellis. Continue to plant cuttings in hot-beds, and those that were put 

 in last month should be attended to and not suffered to be checked in 

 their grow th. Plants of the Isabella and other American varieties may 

 be pruned this month. 



Peach trees, in pots, may be placed in the green-house: those put in 

 last month will now be about flowering, and should have plenty of air. 



FLOWER DEPARTBIENT. 



Dahlia roots: plant them now in hot-beds, to forward them for early 

 blooming; separate the old roots, and plant each tuber in a pot. Sow 

 the seeds now to produce new varieties. 



