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Vegetables. — Potatoes have been much benefited by the late rains, and 

 have become very plenty, and are sold at low prices. Sweet potatoes 

 have also arrived in larger quantities than is usual so early in the season, 

 and prices are low. Turnips are getting plentier. Onions are brought 

 in, now, large and good, and sell readily at fair prices. Beets and carrots 

 are remarkably large and good this season, but do not yet come in in 

 large quantities. Cabbages are becoming better and more abundant since 

 the rains ; the early sorts are now gone, and the market is supplied with 

 the Savoy and Drumheads. Brocolis and cauliflowers are not yet plenty, 

 but the season is very favorable for them, and they will probably be large 

 and good. Lettuce has become scarcer, and now sells at our quotations. 

 Slielled beans and sweet corn are now very plenty. Pickling cucumbers 

 and peppers are now brought into market in large quantities. Squashes 

 are uncommonly plenty and dull ; the principal part now offered for sale 

 are Marrows, and appear to be more generally grown this season than 

 later sorts. 



Fruit, of almost every kind of the season, in great abundance, and 

 the markets loaded ; the season is one of the most productive that has 

 occurred for many years, and from all parts of the country Ave hear ac- 

 counts of great crops. Apples are plenty and in great variety ; great 

 quantities are daily brought from Connecticut, generally very large and 

 fair; — the best kinds now brought to market from this vicinity are the 

 Porter's and Williams's Favorite, which are now becoming plenty. Of 

 pears, the Bartlett, Andrews, Harvard, and Capiaumont, are tolerably 

 plenty; Bartletts are not so large as usual this year; some Seckel pears 

 have been received from New York. Of peaches, the market is fully 

 supplied from New Jersey, and great quantities arrive daily and sell 

 readily at good prices ; the trees in this vicinity were so much injured by 

 the severe cold of last winter, that very few good peaches may be ex- 

 pected from this vicinity. Plums are very abundant, the curculio having 

 attacked the fruit much less than usual ; the trees -are generally loaded 

 with fruit, which sells very low. Whortleberries, &c. are gone. Grapes 

 are becoming more plenty. Watermelons are good and plenty. Green- 

 fleshed melons, brought from New York, are plentiful and cheap. Toma- 

 toes, very plenty and cheap; Cranberries have been received in small 

 quantities and sell low ; it is said that the cranberry crop will be very 

 large this year. Pine apples rather out of season. In oranges and lem- 

 ons, not much doing. — M. T., Boston, August 3lst, 1844. 



' HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA 



FOR SEPTEMBER. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Vines will now be ripening their wood, and particular attention 

 should be given to this part of their management. Give as much air as 

 possible early in the day, and thin out all useless, and stop all lateral 

 shoots ; it will be impossible to produce a good crop of fruit next year, 

 unless the wood of the present year is well matured. Grape vines in the 

 open garden, such as Isabellas, Catawbas, and other hardy sorts, will be 



