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nights of early June. Potatoes never promiserl better: the main crop 

 is now beyond the reach of drought. Fruit also looks well. 



Vegetables. — New potatoes have come in abundantly within a few 

 days, and though prices are variable, according to the stock daily 

 brought in, our quotations may be considered as the average; old 

 ones are nearly gone. Bunched beets and carrots come in now of 

 large size. Radishes are now out of season. Cabbages now come 

 in tolerably plentiful and of good size; drumheads have made their 

 appearance, but are yet small; the supply is mostly of early sorts. 

 Lettuce is plentiful. Rhubarb is supplied in small quantities, but 

 the sale is quite limited now. Peas are scarce; good marrowfats are 

 in better demand. Of beans there is a good stock of common string, 

 and a few of the cranberry have come to hand; shelled have also 

 been brought in in small lots. The warm weather has forwarded 

 the growth of beans exceedingly. Squashes of winter kinds are 

 about gone; but of the summer kinds there is a irood su{)ply. 



Fruits. — New apples come in freely from New York, and of good 

 size and quality; the best are readily taken at our quotations; the 

 common sorts are cheap. Strawberries are all gone, except a few 

 boxes of the Wood. Peaches have made their appearance from the 

 south, but they are yet small; good forced ones yet command fair 

 rates. Cherries are all gone, except a few mazzards. Gooseberries 

 are ripe and good, and a fair supply of fruit has been brought in 

 in small lots. Plums from the south have come to hand in fair order. 

 Pears of the earlier sorts are plentiful. Raspberries are in demand, 

 and there is not a fidl supply; our quotations will pay the grower 

 well for this fruit. Whortleberries now come to hand, and are tak- 

 en at prices. Currants are abundant, large and fine. Tomatoes 

 have been received, and are selling at quotations. Forced grapes 

 are not yet very freely brought in. Cranberries have fallen down to 

 our present rates, and a small demand; very few, however, remain 

 on hand. Oranires and lemons are scarce, and prices have advanced 

 materially. — M.T., Boston, July 26, 1842. 



HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA 



FOR AUGUST. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape vines in the vinery will now begin to color their fruit: give 

 little air early in the morning, and more as the day advances, and 

 shut up early in the afternoon. Prune off all superfluous laterals 

 and shoots- Syringing must be discontinued when the berries have 

 all begun to color. Vines of inferior sorts can now be inarched with 

 better kinds, if the plants of the latter are in pots. 



Strawberry beds must have attention; keep the old ones free of 



