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Comnt Garden Market. 



Art. VII. Covent Garden Market. 



The Cabbage Tribe. 



Cabbage, White, per dozen 

 Cabbage Plants, or Cole- 

 worts, per dozen - 

 Cauliflowers, per dozen - 

 Legumes. 



{"per half sieve 

 Peas - -I per sieve 

 1 per sack 



Beans, Windsor [^er sacT' 

 Kidneybeans, per half sieve^ 



Tubers and Boots. 

 Potatoes 



f per ton 



Good Old . ^ per cwt. 

 t per bush. 



Kidney per bushel 



Scotch per bushel 

 Potatoes, New, per pound 



Early Kidneys 



Ditto, Round 



Fine, from Cornwall - 

 Turnips, White, per bunch 

 Carrots, per bunch 



Young ... 



Horn 

 Red Beet, per dozen in bun. 

 Horseradish, per bundle - 

 Radishes, Red and White 



Turnip, per doz. bunches; 



T/ie Spinach Tribe. 

 Sorrel, per half sieve 



Tlte Onion Tribe. 

 Onions, Green, per bunch 

 Garlic, New, per pound - 

 Shallots, New, per pound 



Asparaginoiis Plimts, 

 Salads, if^c. 

 Artichokes, per dozen 

 Lettuce, per score 



Coss .. - . - 



Cabbage, fine large 



Celery, per bundle (12 to 15) 



Small Salads, per punnet 



Watercress, per dozen small 



bunches ... 



Pot and Sweet Herbs. 

 Parsley, per half sieve 

 Tarragon, p. doz. bunches 

 Purslain, per punnet 

 Fennel, per dozen bunches 

 Thyme, per dozen bunches 

 Sage, per dozen bunches 



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 Marjoram, per doz. bunches 

 Savory, per dozen bunches 

 Basil, per doz. bunches - 

 Rosemary, per doz. bunches 

 Lavender, per doz. bunch. 

 Tansy, per dozen bunches 



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Fruits. 

 Apples, per bushel 



Summer Juneating 



Streaked do. 



Hawthorndean 



Baking - - 

 Peaches, per dozen 

 Nectarines, per.dozen 

 Apricots, per dozen 

 Cherries, Wall, per pound 



Duke's 



Circassians 



Bigarreaus 

 Cherries, in quantities by the 

 sieve,- containing from 

 24 to 48 lbs. per doz. lbs. 



Black Hearts 



Dukes 



Bigarreaus - - - 



Bleeding Hearts - 



Kentish and Flemish - 

 Gooseberries, per half sieve 



For preserving 



Ripe, for table 

 Currants, per half sieve 



Black - 



White 



Red, for Wine 



Dessert ... 

 Raspberries, per gal. (2 pot.) 



Red - - : - 



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Strawberries, per gallon (2 



pottles) about 3 pints - 

 Walnuts, for pickhng, per 



bushel 

 Pine-apples per pound 

 Hot-house Grapes, p. pound 

 Figs, per dozen 

 Melons (each) 

 Cucumbers, Frame, p. brace 



oranges, ^p^^. i^ndred 

 Bitter Oranges, per hxmd. 



Lemons, [Perhumlred' 

 Brazil Nuts, per bushel _ 



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Observations. — The v/eather, in the early part of June, was dry and fine; 

 Strawberries then coming into season, it was feared the crop might be short. 

 The late rains at first, by their genial influence, made them abundant; butj 

 by their long continuance, have rendered them almost tasteless, and dimi- 

 nished their supply and value materially. Notwithstanding, our market has 

 been furnished with the utmost profusion, and in the greatest variety, 

 w^hich may be fairly attributed to the improved method of culture, as well as 

 to the new varieties introduced from seed, among which may be enumerated 

 Keen's Seedling, the Bostock Seedling, the Roseberry, the Downton, 

 Wilmot's Superb, Grange's Black Prince, Wilmot's new Scarlet, new Bath 

 Scarlet, Knevett's new Pine, with Faulkner's new Scarlet Pine. The above 

 Selection embraces all that may be considered valuable, as cultivated in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of London. The method of culture to which I 



