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New potatoes have been brought in tolerably freely and of fair quality, 

 though wanting in size. Early crops have been cut short, and the late 

 ones will be, in the vicinity of Boston, unless there should be rain soon. 

 Old potatoes have gone up, and now sell at quotations. Turnips ])len- 

 titul but rather poorer than usual. Of onions there is a tolerable stock, 

 and probably an abundance will be brought in. Beets and carrots 

 abundant; the old crop is all gone. Radishes still come to hand. Of 

 cabbages there would have been an immense stock but for the drought: 

 they are now abundant, but the heads small. Cauliflowers and brocolis 

 occasionally come to hand. Rhubarb is about done for the season. 

 String beans of several kinds, and the common shelled, are now brought 

 in. Peas have suffered more than any other crop from drought, and 

 prices have been well sustained. Tomatoes raised in the vicinity are 

 now tolerably plentiful. Corn is good, of either kind; it conies for- 

 ward, however, so rapidly, that it soon gets to be past eating. Cucum- 

 bers for pickles cheap and unusually abundant. Of s(|uashes there is 

 a great supply of both summer kinds, and the autumnal marrow have 

 already been received, of fair size and nearly fully ripened; they com- 

 mand good prices. Some West Indias yet remain on hand: the crop 

 of winter squashes promises to be greater than for some years past. 



The stock of fruit is large: apples are very plentiful for the season; 

 the large sweets were received from New York. Pears were, there is 

 no hesitation in saying, never brought into our market in such abundance: 

 they are also of handsome ap])earance. Cherries are about done, with 

 the exception of a few mazzards. Forced peaches have made their ap- 

 pearance, and apricots from the open air. Gooseberries and currants 

 have been injured by the dry weather. Raspberries have been quite 

 plentiful until within a day or two, when they have fallen off very sud- 

 denly. Blueberries and other kinds yet command good prices. The 

 stock of ])ine-apples is getting small. Grapes are more abundant as 

 the season advances. A fine lot of watermelons, from Virginia, ar- 

 rived this week. Cranberries are not yet all gone. Of cucumbers im- 

 mense quantities have been sold; there has not been such a season for 

 this excellent vegetable for several years. Oranges and lemons remain 

 the same. Sales brisk as could be expected. — Yours, M. T., Boston, 

 July 2Sd, 1838. 



Art. VII. Obituary Notice. 



Thomas Andrew Knight, Esa. — Wo had scarcely time or room in 

 our last to notice the death of Mr. Knight at length. We now j)resent 

 our readers with the following obituary notice, copied from the Gm-- 

 dencr's Gazette. Appended to it are all the papers which Mr. Knight 

 has written on the subject of gardening. 



The late Thomas ^indreio Knight, Esq. — This estimable man, known 

 for so many years as the President of the Horticultural Society of Lon- 

 don, expiredon Friday last, after a short illness, at the house of his 

 daughter-iu-law, in Ujjpor Seymour Street, at the advanced age of sev- 

 enty-nine. He arrived in London on the evening of the 30th of April, 

 in a tolerable state of health, fur the j)urpose of attending the anniver- 

 sary meeting of the Horticultural Society, on the following day, on 

 which occasion he has, with very few exceptions, presided, since liis 

 first becoming the president, in 1811; but the fatigues of the journey, 

 combined with the debility consequent upon his advanced years, [ire- 



