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juicy and delicious, and fully a fortnight earlier, than the universal favourite 

 of the horticulturists, the Crawford. The Prematures brought from 

 16s. to 205. a bushel (52 lbs.), while no person offered more than half a 

 guinea for the Crawfords. Lemon pears sold from 12s. to 14s. a bushel. 

 There were also a few early plums shown, but not so many as to render a 

 notice of their price requisite. Grapes are an abundant crop, and as there 

 have been very few dinners this season, the demand for them has been very 

 limited. The gardeners considered themselves pretty well off who got 

 their stock disposed of at a shilling a pound. (Scotsman.) 



Sept. 1. — The best Hawthorndens and summer strawberries yesterday 

 morning sold from 1*. 6d. to 2s. a peck, and the Lemon and Sugar pears 

 brought the same prices. So plentiful were the universal favourites, the 

 Crawfords, that they sold at from Is. 2d. to Is. 6d. a peck. Jargonelles sold 

 from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. a peck. Plums are making their appearance. Orleans 

 brought 4d. and 5d., and Magnums Is. 3d. and Is. 6d. a dozen. Grapes 

 were sold at Is. 6d. and Is. 8d. a pound. (Scotsman.) 



Sept. 29. — So great is the crop in this neighbourhood, that the horticul- 

 turists complain they are getting no more for their Sovereigns and Ribstone 

 Pippins, their Longuevilles and Yairs, than they used to do for the most 

 indifferent apples and pears that cumbered their orchards, These fruits 

 sell from Is. to 2s. a peck. Magnums sell from Is. to 2s. a dozen. Scotch 

 damsons retail at Is. the imperial quart, or about 6d. a pound ; but the 

 Burnets [?], the most useful of all plums, bring 2s. 6d. a peck, or about 3\d. 

 a pound. Owing to the arrival of English and Welsh cargoes, the fruit is 

 still cheaper in Glasgow than it is here. (Scotsman.) 



Clydesdale Orchards. — During the last ten days the fruit in most of the 

 Clydesdale orchards has been sold, in the usual way, by public roup. The 

 sales were conducted under circumstances of a more cheering complexion 

 than they were in 1826. Taken in the aggregate, the crop of apples and 

 pears is double, and that of the Orleans and Whitton plums nearly triple 

 that of last year; yet, nevertheless, so keen was the competition, and the 

 bidders were so confident in the improving circumstances of the country, 

 that the fruit brought about last year's prices. According to quality and 

 other circumstances of minor importance, prices ran from 4l. to 5l. a boll. 

 Fruits in general are about a month later than they were last season. Craw- 

 ford pears, and the White or Early Fullwood apples, are the only sorts 

 fully ripe, and so few of them have been brought to market, that the rates 

 at which they are likely to be retailed are not yet ascertained. (Scotsman, 

 Aug. 22.) 



Apples and Pears in Glasgow are retailing at a halfpenny a pound ; they 

 are to be had of good quality at id. and l±d., while the price of the very 

 finest quality does not exceed 3d. English damson plums are retailing in 

 the fruit-shops at 2d. per pound. The fruit merchants say that they do not 

 remember fruit of all kinds ever being cheaper than it is this season. 

 (Scotsman, Sept. 29.) 



A Potato is at present growing in the garden of Mr. James Low, North 

 Berwick, from a tuber that was planted whole, the stems of which cover 

 closely a space of ground 6 feet 8 inches diameter, or 44 feet 3 inches 

 4 parts square. It is likely the gross produce will be made known to the 

 public. .Nine years ago an experiment of the same sort was tried by Mr. 

 Dougald Campbell, head-gardener to Sir John Maxwell, when in all one 

 hundred and one potatoes were turned up, which exactly filled a Lanark- 

 shire peck, weighing of course 41 lbs. (Scotsman, Sept. 8.) 



A single Grain of Wheat, thrown by accident over a hedge into a garden 

 at Waterbeach last autumn, has produced thirty-eight ears, containing, on 

 the average, fifty-one grains in each, or, in the whole, above nineteen hundred 

 fold! (Scotsman, Aug. 22.) 



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