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soil : old ones are all gone. Turnips are plenty. Onions are tolerably 

 plenty, and the past week several bushels have come to hand — early in 

 euinparisnn with other articles. We are glad to state that the demand 

 for salriily, or perhaps, as it is better known, the vegetable oyster, has 

 much increased the present season ; we are certain that when it has 

 been fully tried, and cooked in a proper manner, that it will be eagerly 

 sought after — like the tomato, which at first was eaten with great preju- 

 dice, it will become as generally liked. Radishes are not so plentiful. 



Of cabbages, the stock the coming winter will not be very large, unless 

 the ensuing month is warmer than we now anticipate. Early sorts 

 come in slowly ; savoys have just made their appearance. Cauliflowers 

 are not yet brought in abundantly. Lettuce is now quite scarce, especial- 

 ly that of good quality. Tomatoes are so highly esteemed, that they 

 command the present season as high a price as the finest fruits: very 

 few have been raised in this vicinity, and the market is supplied almost 

 Avholly from New York. Sweet corn for boiling is extremely scarce. 

 Peas are less plentiful than at the time of our last report. String beans 

 are very abundant ; indeed the prospect is now of but few others; no 

 sievas, which usually are plenty at this time of the year, ai'e to be had, 

 and the first shelled beans of any kind came to hand the last week ; 

 Limas will not probably ripen at all. Squashes are sufficiently plenty 

 to supply the demand, and prices moderate. West Indias are all gone. 



Fruit raised in this neighborhood, with the exception of pears, is not 

 plentiful. But the facilities which are afforded by the rail-road for 

 transporting merchandise ai'e taken advantage of by marketers, and 

 large quantities of very excellent quality are brought from New York. 

 Apples will be plenty; fine early harvests and Shropshirevines may be 

 now had. Of pears, there is a much gi*eater variety than was to be 

 found in the market a few years since; jargonelles and English Cathe- 

 rines are kinds much called for. Peaches raised in this vicinity in green- 

 houses or graperies, command a good price, more, we believe, for their 

 beauty than their flavor, as few that we have seen possess much of 

 the latter quality ; cultivators are too eager tosend their fruit to mar- 

 ket, and gather it before it arrives at maturity ; the supply is from New 

 York. The supply of plums is from the same source as that of peaches; 

 a rather new sort, this year, is the Italian damask, which is a very good 

 plum. Currants are tolerably plenty. Berries of all sorts are scarce, 

 and prices uncommonly high. Few watermelons have yet come to 

 hand. Cucumbers come to hand very slowly ; the quantity for pickling 

 will be very small this year. Yours, M. T., August 22, 1836. 



Art. VII. Meteorological Notice. 



FOR JULY. 



The month of July, though not near so warm as seasons in general, 

 was quite pleasant. The prevailing winds were from S. to E. The 

 highest range of the thermometer, as will be seen below, was only 88^, 

 and this only one day. There were several fine showers, but the month 

 was not warm enough for vegetation to progress rapidly. 



Thermometer. — Mean tempei'ature, 66" 13' — highest, 88' ; lowest, 

 50^ above zero. 



Winds. — N., three days — N. E., two — E., seven — S. E., three — S., 

 eight — S. W., two — W., four — N. W., two days. 



Force of the Wind. — Brisk, fifteen days — light, sixteen days. 



Character of the Weather. — Fine, ten days — Fair, ten 

 Cloudy, eleven days. 



Rainy, six days — Misty, two days. 



