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ed from our gardens on account of its unfruitfulness, is producinj^ an 

 abundant crop this season. Of the smaller fruits, such as raspberries, 

 &r., there is a good crop. 



Old potatoes have become a drug in the market. Some very 

 small new ones have made their app>earance, but too poor to be put 

 into our quotations this month. The good prices which potatoes ob- 

 tained in A])ril, brought in a great qaantity from the Eastward, and 

 prices have fallen off consideral)ly. New turnips are plentiful, and fine. 

 New onions come to hand in considerable abundance, and of good qual- 

 ity, Seve'ral hundred bunches of reds, so called, came in this week 

 from the Cape; they are said to be this year's growth, although they are 

 perfectly dry and handsomely bunched. New beets and carrots now 

 come in tolerably freely. Parsnips gone. New cai)bages of very fine 

 appearance have been received this week. Cauliflowers and brocolis 

 the same as our last. Lettuce abundant and good, though from the ex- 

 cessive warm sun, it has run to seed rather quicker than usual. Rhu- 

 barb abundant. Dandelions &.c. gone. Peas have been tolerably plen- 

 tiful, but this week the supply has fallen off very considerably; in dry sit- 

 uations where they have been planted for early crops, the hot sun has 

 almost dried up the vines; prices have in consequence been very vari- 

 able. String beans are now coming in freely. Bush squashes have 

 made their appearance this week, and a good supply is expected soon. 



Fruit of all kinds obtainaI)le at this season, tolerably abundant. A 

 few russet apples yet remain. Watermelons scarce. Strawberries 

 plentiful, and a good demand, which has tended to keep up prices; just 

 at this date the supply is growing short, from the effect of the weather, 

 which has ripened them all off at once. Cherries abundant, but poor. 

 Currants, jrooseberries, &.C., plentiful. Pine apples very abundant; sev- 

 eral arrivals this week have stocked the market. Some new forced 

 grapes have come to hand, and command quotations. Cucumbers from 

 the open trround begin to make their ap])earance; the weather has been 

 excellent for the vines. Oranires very scarce and prices hiuh. Lemons 

 plentiful. Cranberries are oidy to be had by the j)eck or so, at our pri- 

 ces. Sales bri>k, and the market "generally, this month, has attained its 

 wonted activity. — Yours, .M. T., June 2Sth, 1838. 



Art. VIIL Obituarxj Notice. 



Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. — It is with regret that we announce 

 the death of Mr. Kniu'lit, the late venerable presidciu of the Loudon 

 Horticultural Society. We have scarcely time at this late hour to 

 copy an obituary notice of his death from the London Alhenaum, \\n- 

 der the siijnatiire of J. L.. (probably Dr. Lindley,) written ^\ith just 

 and excellent feelinur, but sh ill recur to it in our next. He died in Lon- 

 don, at the house of Mrs. Wal|)ole, one of his daughters, after a short 

 illness, on the eleventh of May, iu the eightieth year of his age. {Gard. 

 Mag.) 



