384. Obilumy. 



very good ; the stock in growth is said to be small, the supply through 

 the' season will necessarily l)c limited, and may realise good prices. Cab- 

 bages of excellent (luality have been in good supply, at moderate prices. 



Broccolics have been very abimdant, and of good quality, owing to the 

 mildness of the winter, the frost never having materially affected the 

 crowtii : the varieties principally furnished have been of the later sorts; and 

 periiaps in no other instance does the improvement in gardening become 

 more apparent, than in the sorts of late broccolies now produced, almost 

 each indiviilual gardener having a good variety of his own growth. 

 Rhubarb, which has for some years past been largely cultivated, is still a 

 subject of increasing interest, and more extensively in demand than ever : 

 on the 3th May no less than eight entire waggon loads packed in bulk, 

 with an ecjual quantity in smaller proportions, were brought in and sold in 

 this market alone: one cultivator, Mr. INIyatt, of New Cross, Deptford, 

 had three waggon loads ; he has, I believe, nearly twenty acres in culture. 

 (Jf broccoli, on the same day, were sent five waggon loads, and of broccoli 

 sprouts three waggon loads. 



Gooseberries are now coming in abundantly, the crop said to be good ; 

 and, from the extensive breadth under culture, a very full supply may 

 be expected : the prices of these and other ordinary fruits will, of course, 

 be moderate, but the quantity will compensate the growers, who have for 

 the last two seasons suffered severe loss, from short crops of fruit, 

 middling [irices, and the general depression arising from many other causes. 



Strawberries (forced) have been very plentiful and excellent. Grapes 

 are now coming more freely to market, as yet they have been in short 

 supply, and in very limited demand. 



Our stock of apples is now confined to some fifty or a hundred barrels 

 of reinettes grises, the holders of which keep them at a high price ; the con- 

 sequence of which is, they are in little demand, although we have little 

 prospect of early fruit to supersede the use of them. The stock of winter 

 onions is almost quite exhausted, hitherto it was customary to keep over 

 a supply until Midsummer ; but, in consequence of the introduction of 

 earlier spring varieties of onions, the practice is discontinued; more par- 

 ticularly as the prices lately obtained would not warrant holding over any 

 (juantity. 



Potatoes, the still leading article of supjily in the metropolis, liave been 

 very low in price since Christi.ias ; so much so, tiiat the growers in tiie 

 distant districts have given up sending tliem ; in consequence of which 

 the stock on hand is very short, and, as the spring is very backward, no 

 immediate supply can be expected. A rapid and considerable rise in value 

 has taken place, particularly in Scotch reds, which, during one week, rose 

 23*. per ton. — G. C. May 21. 1832. 



Art. X. Obituary. 



Dim, March 21 ., Mr. Archibald M'Xau<ihton, formerly of Hackney, but, 

 at the time of his death, residing with some relations of his wife, in the 

 parish of Monij^ill, in Perthshire. INIr. M'Naughton was an occasional 

 contributor to tliis Miigazinc, and the author of the Life of a Jobbing Gor- 

 doirr, which appeared in our First Number. (Vol. I. p. 24-.) A cojjyof his 

 will has been sent us, together with a number of papers, which we have 

 not yet had time to examine. 



Died, April 7., at his residence in the New Road, j\fr. Jnifdn-i, of the 

 Marylebone and Regent's J'ark Hurscries. He was a man of the greatest 

 industry and perseverance ; and, beginning with nothing, he acc.imulated 

 considerable |)ro])erty. Some account of his life is promised us for our 

 next Number. 



