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Through December up to the date we now write, the weather has been 

 cool and rather unpleasant, with the thermometer falling down the present 

 week to 1 deg. above zero. But notwithstanding the rather sudden ap- 

 proach of the winter season, there has been scarcely any change worthy 

 of note. 



Vegetables. — In potatoes there has been something doing, but sales can- 

 not be said to be very readily effected. The cold weather has prevented the 

 usual supply by coasters, but this does not seem to have enhanced prices 

 but little, or created a brisker sale. Nova Scotias are the only kind which 

 command better prices tlian at tlie time of our last report. Sweet pota- 

 toes are supplied in good quantity ; a large lot of about 700 barrels has 

 been kept in the manner we noticed last year, and by the same enterpriz- 

 ing individuals ; the plan seems to answer well. Good white turnips are 

 not quite so plentiful. Onions are a shade higher. Carrots are more 

 abundant, and in quantity do not command so high rates. Parsnips re- 

 main the same, witli the usual supply. Cabbages continue plentiful, and 

 prices low ; an unusually large and fine stock was raised the past season. 

 Brocolis are scarcer, and command better prices. Cauliflowers are less 

 abundant as the season advances. Lettuce is supplied in moderate quan- 

 tities, but not of remarkable size. No radishes have yet appeared. Cel- 

 ery continues abundant and good. Parsley is now scarce, and an ad- 

 vance has taken place in the price per half peck. Spinach comes in very 

 abundantly, and of fine size and quality. Of squashes, there is a small 

 stock ; as the season advances they become a greater rarity, and prices 

 naturally tend upward : Scarcely any marrows are in market. 



Fruit. — In the fiuit market there is but little change. Baldwins of fine 

 quality only command our quotations ; owing to tlie small stock of last 

 year's ice, which has prevented shipment to South America, less of this 

 variety has been exported than usual. Greenings are in better demand, 

 and the stock is working off fast. In other kinds no change. Pears of 

 first-rate quality are scarce ; such of the varieties as are named in our 

 price current are to be had, but generally rather small and inferior ; the 

 De Cure is the most plentiful. Quinces are gone. Cranberries are re- 

 duced to an extremely small stock, and prices are considerably higher. 

 A few tomatoes, fresh from the vines, have continued to come to hand, 

 and are quickly taken. Foreign grapes are abundant. In nuts there is 

 but little doing, and no alteration in prices. — M. T., Boston, Dec. 28th, 

 1842. 



Art. VI. Obituary. 



Robert Manning, Esq. — In a late number (Vol. VIII. p. 439), we an- 

 nounced the death of Mr. Manning, which took place at his residence in 

 Salem, on tlie 10th of October, 1842, at the age of fifty-eight. 



It would be unpardonable in us to pass over the death of this eminent 

 pomologist and amiable man witli the mere aimouncement of tlie same. — 

 The friendly intercourse and correspondence which has grown up between 



