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ters, a very excellent variety, and finding a ready sale : common sorts are 

 quite plentiful. Turnips are scarce ; no new ones have yet come to hand, 

 and the old stock being about exhausted, prices have advanced. Onions are 

 tolerably plentiful for the season. Beets and carrots are higher, and of 

 parsnips none now remain. Horseradish is rather scarce, and prices main- 

 tained. Radishes abundant and good. Cabbages are about gone, and no 

 new ones have yet appeared. Lettuce plentiful and good. Rhubarb abun- 

 dant. Asparagus, owing to the last week of cool weather, has been scarce, 

 and in good demand at high prices. Greens of all sorts plentiful. Peas 

 from New York have been well supplied, and of fair quality ; a few days 

 of good warm weather will bring in a good supply from our market gardens. 

 Squashes are nearly all gone except West Indias. Parsley rather scarce. 



Fruit. — Apples are nearly done for the season ; a very few Baldwins 

 may be found, but the principal stock is confined to Russets and a kind from 

 New York called the New York Pearmain. Russets are in brisk demand 

 at our current rates. Cranberries have advanced considerably ; but the 

 stock is now quite low. Cucumbers plentiful for the season. Forced 

 peaches have been brought in in small lots, and sold readily. Grapes are 

 yet scarce ; a week or two will give a better supply and at lower rates. 

 Malagas, of good quality, are about gone. A small lot of watermelons 

 have been received, and prices take a wide range according to size. Straw- 

 berries from New York have been well supplied for several days, and the 

 first of the season, from this vicinity, have been brought in this week. 

 Green Gooseberries abundant from New York. Oranges are rather scarce, 

 and prices have slightly advanced since our last. Pine apples are more 

 plentiful ; some late arrivals have brought in a good supply. In nuts scarce- 

 ly any thing is now doing. — Yours, M. T., Boston, May 30, 1846. 



HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA 



FOR JUNE. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Vines — A continuation of good weather has been favorable to 

 early vines, in the greenhouse or grapery. The first thinning having all 

 been done, the berries will now be so much swelled, that the bunches should 

 be shouldered ; and where the berries have the appearance of filling up the 

 bunch t )o much, a few of the centre ones should be cut out. Syringe now, 

 and keep the house damp, shutting up early. Vines in cold houses will 

 now be setting their fruit, and the house should be closed earlier than usual, 

 and the same directions followed as recommended last month for green- 

 houses. Vines in the open air will soon be in flower, and the only care 

 they now require will be to pull off all superfluous and crowded shoots. 



