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Observations. — The prevalence of hot dry weather through the month 

 of August has kept our market short in supply of vegetables, especially 

 turnips, cabbages, and coleworts, which, since the rain, begin to be sent 

 rather more generally, but by no means abundantly; the prices are con- 

 sequently moderate. The supply has been generally good and regular, 

 with a corresponding demand : in some instances the prices have been low, 

 but generally fair. We have had an excellent supply of Williams's sum- 

 mer bon Chretien, of excellent quality, and at reasonable prices. Jargo- 

 nelles were not so good a crop. Knevett's new seedling has been in 

 moderate supply, considering the limited extent of its growth at this time. 

 Plums have been a fair, but not a general or heavy, crop : they have been 

 brought to market steadily, and in excellent condition. Damsons are a 

 middling crop; they have been much in demand, at very good prices. The 

 crop of walnuts is most abundant, and now coming to market freely; 

 notwithstanding which, we have received large quantities from Holland, 

 they bein^ somewhat earlier ripe than ours : they have been disposed of 

 very readily at a remunerating price to the importers. 



Our prospects for the winter supply have been materially improved by 

 the late warm showers, which will necessarily encourage the growth of all 

 vegetables, although the growers have been put to heavy expenses in keep- 

 ing their seed-beds watered, for the necessary purposes of transplanting. 

 Turnips, since the rain, begin to promise a good but a late supply. The 

 potato crop is considered to be short, not only from the prevalence of dry 

 weather, but from the circumstance of the sets not having planted well 

 through the season ; in many instances, the crop has proved a failure, and 

 has been ploughed up. Our markets are now so generally furnished by 

 water from all parts of the country, that we are almost at all times sure of 

 a good supply ; so that it is not likely they will average more than a me- 

 dium price. Onions have been generally harvested well ; the crop but 

 moderately productive as to quantity, the bulbs being generally small, from 

 the prevalence of drought; but they are well ripened. The crop of apples 

 has been very good, but, in consequence of the heavy winds, a large ^ro- 

 portion has been blown off, and consumed for cider ; consequently, our 

 supplies have not been so heavy as expected : the prices have increased 

 lately, and promise to continue steady; so that the growers will, I hope, 

 have no reason to complain. — G. C. Sept. 17. 1833. 



Art. VII. OUtuary. 



Died, in the afternoon of Saturday, August 24. 1833, Adrian Hardy 

 Haworth, Esq., at his residence, 10. Salamanca Terrace, Queen's Elm, 

 Little Chelsea ; aged 66 years. He was enjoying his usual health, and 

 watering his favourite plants, at seven o'clock in the evening of August 

 the 23d, when he was seized with malignant cholera, and died between 

 three and four o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th. The loss of a man 

 so diligent in useful services to entomology and botany would, under any 

 circumstances, be felt with sensations of sincere regret, by all those who 

 take pleasure in pursuing these sciences ; but the loss of him, so sudden 

 and unexpected, at a time when many of us were anticipating the pleasure 

 and advantage of deriving many more lessons of instruction from his 

 labours and kind communications, is painfully appalling. 



In relation to the acts of Mr. Haworth's life, I present from vol. ii. 

 p. 11. and 12. of Faulkner's Historical and Topographical Description of 

 Chelsea and its Environs, published in 1829, the following succinct account 

 of them : — 



" By indefatigable industry in investigating, and by critical acumen in 



