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Covent Garden Market. 



Woodlice, or Alillepedes. — Can you tell me of any way to destroy woodlice, 

 or millepedes '? The bark in my pine-stove swarms with them ; and I fancy they 

 eat the roots of the plants. — J. B. W. 



Art. IV. Covent Garden Market. 



The Cabbage Tribe. 

 Cabbage Plants, or Coleworts, 



per dozen 

 Broccoli, White, per doz. heads 



Legumes. 

 Peas, forced, per pottle 

 Kidiieybeans, forced, per hun. 



Tubers and Roots. 

 rper ton 

 Potatoes ■? per cwt. 



C per bushel 

 Kidney, per bushel 

 Scotch, per bushel 

 New, per pound 

 Carrots, old, per bunch 

 Parsneps, per dozen 

 Red Beet, per dozen 

 Skirret, per bunch 

 Scorzonera, per bundle 

 Salsify, per bunch 

 Horseradish, per bundle 

 Radishes : 

 Red, per dozen hands (24 to 



•2^ each; ... 

 White Turnip, per bunch - 



The Spinach Tribe. 

 spinach Y^,iZh,,l : 

 Sorrel, per half sieve 



TTie Onion Tribe. 

 Onions, old, per bushel - - 

 Leeks, per dozen bunches . 

 Chives, per dozen roots 

 Garlic, per pound 

 Shallots, per pound 



Asparaginous Plants, 

 Salads, ^c. 



Asparagus, per hundred : 

 Large . . . - 

 Middling ... 



Sea-kale, per punnet - 

 Seconds . - - 



Small . - - 



Lettuce, per score : 



Cos .... 



Cabbage, per score 



Celery, per bundle (12 to 15) 



i From 

 \£ s. d. 



6 

 2 



16 

 16 



1 



2 















1 



1 



1 



1 



1 

 



1 

 

 1 





 3 



8 



2 



1 6 



10 8 



I 1 



18 

 2 



To 



£ s. d.\ 



Small Salads, per punnet 

 8 Oil Watercress, per dozen small 

 6 oil bunches 



Pot and Sweet Herbs. 

 Parsley, per half sieve 

 Tarragon, dried, per doz. bun. 

 Fennel, per dozen bunches . 

 ThjTne, per dozen bunches 

 Sage, per dozen bunches 

 Mint, per dozen bunches 

 Peppermint, dried, per dozen 



bunches - - 

 Marjoram, dried, per doz. bun. 

 Savory, per dozen bunches . 

 Basil, dried, per dozen bunches 

 Lavender, dried, per dozen 



bunches 

 Tansy, per dozen bunches 



4 



2 

 



2 

 1 

 



10 



3 

 2 

 

 1 



Stalks and Fruits for Tarts, 



Pickling, SfC. 

 Rhubarb Stalks, forced, per 

 I bundle . . - 



j Edible Fungi and Fuci. 

 Mushrooms, per (xittle 

 Morels, per pound 

 Trufifles, English, per pound 



i Fruits. 



j Apples, Dessert, per bushel : 

 Nonpareil 



Baking ... 

 j American ... 

 Almonds, per peck 

 Strawberries, per gallon (2 pot- 



ties) about 3 pints 

 ,Pine-apple^, per pound 

 Grapes, hot-house, per pound 

 .Cucumbers, frame, per brace 



V».„„ , f per dozen 



lOranges J j;^^ hundred 



O'l Bitter, per hundred - 

 0I|t„^„„, Cper dozen - . 

 6' ^"""n per hundred 

 6 Sweet Almonds, per pound - 

 , Nuts, per bushel : , 



I' Brazil . . - 

 Op Spanish ... 



Of Barcelona . - . 



O! Cob ... 



The supplies to the market continue very limited. From the general de- 

 struction attendant on the late severe winter, and the present cold and cheer- 

 less season, we cannot expect the spring to be genial, especially as regards 

 the supplv of vegetables. At present, we are receiving some broccoli from 

 Penzance, which has realised good prices, consequent on the absence of all 

 competition by the London gardeners, whose crops have been entirely de- 

 stroyed. Some asparagus from the open ground has been furnished, but in 

 very small quantities; arid the quality so inferior, as not to induce the dealers to 

 give anything like a high price. A few forced peas have been offered ; but, 

 from the absence of the nobility, Sec, from London during the Easter recess, 

 did not meet with a ready sale at the price demanded. — C. G. M., April 24'. 

 1838. 



