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of approaching showers, and every farmer will welcome them with feel- 

 ings of the deepest joy. 



Vegetables. — A variety of new products have been brought in since our 

 last. The old crop of many vegetables and fruits is giving place to the 

 new, and considerable change will be noticed. Potatoes of the new crop 

 are small and quite scarce, and command good prices ; old are most gone ; 

 some chenangoes and Eastports remain, and the latter sell readily. Tur- 

 nips are very scarce and in good demand. Onions are tolerably well sup- 

 plied, though the prospect is that the crop will not be large. New beets 

 and carrots are brought in in fair quantity, though not large. Radishes 

 are now mostly out of the market. Cabbages are very scarce ; few crops 

 have suffered more from the dry weather, and those of good size now sell 

 at the high rates in our quotations. String beans are scarce. Peas are 

 quite scarce, and prices have been high and variable all the month. New 

 celery now comes to hand of fair size. Corn has been received from New 

 York, but it now comes in from the vicinity. Rhubarb is l)ut little in de- 

 mand since new apples have come in. Of squashes, there has been a fair 

 stock of bush and summer crookneck, but the dry weather is now cutting 

 the crop off, and prices have a tendency upward ; a few new autumnal 

 marrows have just been received ; some West India's yet remain on hand. 



Fruit. — The stock of apples is now wholly, or nearly so, from New 

 York and Virginia. The sorts consist principally of the Early Sour Bow 

 and the Early Sweet Bow ; great quantities are sold daily ; a few Early 

 Harvest, from Roxbury, have also made their appearance. Pears are 

 now received from New York, and in great abundance ; among them, 

 some very fine Jargonelles. Strawberries and cherries are gone. Forced 

 peaches and nectarines are supplied in small quantities, and sell at 

 our prices. Ripe gooseberries are abundant. Blueberries and whortle- 

 berries, owing to the dry weather, are quite scarce, and command high 

 prices. Tomatoes are now received in quantities from New York. A 

 few arrivals of watermelons have kept up the stock. Pine apples are 

 now very plentiful and good. Cucumbers are yet supplied mostly from 

 New York, no less than the uncommon quantity of 175 barrels having 

 been sold at one stall in the space of two weeks ; this shows to what 

 an extent our market is supplied with early produce from the South. 

 Grapes are now brought in more freely, and prices are a shade lower. 

 The recent arrivals of prime lemons have again stocked the market. 

 Raspberries have been quite scarce, and good Franconias command our 

 highest quotations ; this variety is deserving of extensive growth for the 

 market. In nuts of all kinds there is now but little doing. — M. T., Bos- 

 ton, July 29th, 1843. 



HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA 



FOR AUGUST. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Vines, at this season, if early started, will now have ripened 

 their fruit sufficiently to cut. The vines will therefore only need but little 



