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out of season. Cabbages will be scarce the coming winter, as the crop 

 is quite small; Drumheads have just come to hand; Red cabbages are 

 very scarce, and command a good price. Cauliflowers do not appear 

 to be very plentiful. Tomatoes have not ripened well this season, here, 

 and those in the market now are mostly picked from vines which were 

 partly, or wholly, destroyed by frost in the early part of this month. 

 Corn has been very small this season. We did not expect to see many 

 Sieva beans this fall, but the late warm weather has bi-ought them for- 

 ward rapidly. Of squashes the crop is very small: some Canadas, 

 which have been brought in, have been immediately taken at quotations, 

 though they were but partly ripened ; common crooknecks have hardly 

 attained to maturity. 



Apples, though not yet abundant, will, we cannot but think, be tole- 

 rably plenty in a short time; in this quarter they are rather small, but, 

 at the south, they are exceedingly large and fair. Pears are scarce; 

 there has been but i'ew Bartlett's in this season, no Cushing's that we 

 have yet seen, and other sorts come to hand slowly; St. Michaels are 

 much better than in ordinary seasons. Peaches, from New York, are 

 quite plenty. The whole stock of watermelons has been received from 

 the south, as has that of muskmelons. Grapes are more plentiful and 

 prices more moderate. Pine apples are scarce; there have not been any 

 arrivals of late. Immense quantities of cucumbers for pickling have 

 been received here from New York. Oranges and lemons remain about 

 the same.— Yours, M. T., Boston, Sept. lid, 1836. 



Art. VI. Meteorological Notice. 



FOR AUGUST. 



The first part of the month of August was unusually cold: a light 

 frost occurred about the 6th, which did some damage to vegetation in 

 low situations. The latter part was extremely dry, not even a' shower 

 occurring to the end of the month. 



Thermometer. — Mean temperature, 60° 30' — highest, 78°; lowest, 

 40° below zero. 



Winds. — N. two days — E. nine — S. five — S. W. eight — W. three 

 N. W. four. 



Force of the Wind. — Brisk, eighteen days — light, thirteen days. 



Character of the Weather. — Fine, twenty-three days — Fair, five 

 days — Cloudy, three days. 



Showery, four days — rainy, one day. 



