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place. If the nobility would but turn their minds to the innocent, and, at the 

 same time, rational, amusement of superintending the cultivation of their 

 gardens, and enter into the spirit of the thing with the same enthusiasm as 

 they do into many other less wise, and sometimes less justifiable, pursuits, 

 how soon would they feel the benefit of the change ! You have exerted your- 

 self more, perhaps, than any other individual in promoting the interests of 

 horticulture, and also for those employed in it : that your endeavours may be 

 ultimately crowned with success, and that you may yet see a vast increase to 

 the number of amateur gardeners, is the sincere wish of — E. 



Art. V. Covent Garden Market. 



The Cabbage Tribe. 

 Cabbage, White, per dozen - 



Red 



Plants or Coleworts, per doz, 

 Broccoli, Green, per bunch - 



Cape - - 



Legumes. 

 Pea? 5" per half sieve 

 ""* I per sieve 

 Kidneybeans, per half sieve 



Tubers and Roots. 



rper ton 



Potatoes - ■< per cwt. 



Cper bushel 

 Jerusalem Artichokes, per half 



sieve ... 



Turnips, White, per bunch 

 Carrots, per bunch 



Horn - 

 Red Beet, per dozen - - 

 Scorzonera, per bundle 

 Salsify, per bunch 

 Horseradish, per bundle 

 Radishes : 

 Red, per dozen hands (24 to 



30 each), per bunch 

 White Turnip, per bunch 



The Spinach Tribe. 

 Spinach (P-j 



■ sieve 

 half sieve 

 New Zealand, per half sieve 

 Sorrel, per half sieve . 



TV/.? Onion Tribe. 

 Onions, Old, per bushel 

 For pickling, per half sieve 

 When green (Ciboules), per 



bunch - - 



Spanish, per dozen 

 Leeks, per dozen bunches - 

 Garlic, per pound 

 Shallots, per pound 



Asparaginous Plants, 

 Salads, S;c. 

 Lettuce, per score : 

 Cos - . 



Cabbage - . 



Endive, per score - 

 Celery, new, per bundle (12 



to 15) ... 



Small Salads, per punnet 



Pot and Sweet Herbs. 

 Parsley, per half sieve 

 Tarragon, per dozen bunches 

 Fennel, per dozen bunches - 

 Thyme, per dozen bunches 

 Sage, per dozen bunches 

 Mint, per dozen bunches 

 Peppermint, per dozen bunches 

 Marjoram, per dozen bunches 



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Savory, per dozen bunches - 

 Basil, per dozen bunches 

 Rosemary, per dozen bunches 

 Tansy, per dozen bunches - 



Stalks and Fruits for Tarts- 

 Pickling, SjC. 



Vegetable Marrow, per dozen 

 Gourds, per dozen - - 



Tomatoes, per half sieve 

 Capsicums, per hundred : 



Green ... 



Ripe, Large 

 Chilies - - 



Edible Fungi and Fuci. 



Mushrooms, per pottle 

 Morels, per pound 

 Truffles, English, per pound 

 Foreign - 



Fruits. 



Apples, Dessert, per bushel : 

 Ribston Pippins 

 Downtons 

 Russets - 



Gough Pippins 

 Baking, per bushel "- 

 Pears, Dessert, per half sieve 

 Bergamot - 

 Swan's Eggs 

 Chaumontels 

 Baking, per half sieve 

 Peaches, per dozen 

 Almonds, per peck 

 Damsons, per sieve 

 Mulberries, per gallon (two 



pottles) - - 



Blackberries, per half sieve 

 Berberries, per half sieve 

 Elderberries, per bushel 

 Walnuts - - - 



Filberts, English, per 100 lbs. 

 Hazel Nuts, per peck 

 Pine-apples, pfer pound 

 Grapes, per pound : 

 Hot-house 

 From the open wall 

 For Wine, per 112 pounds 

 Melons, each 



Cucumbers, f per hundred - 

 Pickling I per thousand 



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Dates, per pound 

 Sweet Almonds, per pound 

 Brazd Nuts, per bushel 

 Spanish Nuts, per peck 



New - 



Barcelona Nuts, per peck - 

 Eggs of Silkworms, per paper 



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