328 Obituary. 



Observations. — The supply, since the last report, has been upon the whole 

 good, the articles coming into season steadily ; while many of the late winter 

 crops, such as broccoli, coleworts, and spinage, standing over in consequence 

 of the rather backward state of the spring, form an abundant supply. As yet 

 we have had asparagus in very moderate quantities : it has realised to the 

 growers a fair price. Spring cabbages have been plentiful ; prices moderate. 

 Some peas have been furnished from time to time during the last three weeks ; 

 principally from frames or houses ; but on Friday the 13th, and Saturday the 

 16th, some half sieves from the open ground (of course, from the fronts of 

 south walls) were in the market at the prices quoted. At the same period 

 last year, we had a moderate supply from the open fields and gardens of Kent 

 and Middlesex ; upon comparison, I should consider the difl'erence of the two 

 seasons equal to a week or ten days. Of cauliflowers, some of excellent qua- 

 lity and good size ; early potatoes plentiful, with a steady supply from Corn- 

 wall bv steam. Cos lettuces, of excellent quality, are plentiful, both from the 

 autumnal and spring planting. It has always been considered that our friends 

 and neighbours in France were in the habit of consuming vegetables more 

 extensively than ourselves'; and, during the time that so many were exiled in 

 London, the gardeners considered that the demand for these articles had 

 been increased. Impressed with this opinion, 1 certainly expected, on visiting 

 Paris, to have found the markets of that city more extensive and better sup- 

 plied with every article than our own. To my great surprise, I did not observe 

 this to be the case ; on the contrary, I could not discover any feature of re- 

 semblance as to the quantities supplied, nor could I trace, during my stay, at 

 the respective tables to which I had access, any thing to satisfy me that such 

 was the case. As it was exactly at the corresponding period of the spring 

 last year that I was there, I have this season noted down a rough sketch of 

 supply to our principal market on each Saturday, the 2d, 9th, and 16th of 

 the present month. On the 2d of May we had sixty waggon-loads, and eighty 

 cart-loads, of different vegetables, in bulk ; besides all that were pitched (per- 

 haps equal to half that quantity), in baskets, on a surface quite equal to an 

 acre and a half of ground, which comprises the space appropriated to that pur- 

 pose; this altogether independent of the supply of potatoes : on the 9th, 

 fifty-seven waggon-loads, and seventy-five cart-loads, besides the usual supply 

 in the interior squares of the market: and, on the 16th, sixty waggon-loads, 

 and seventy cart-loads. On the 23d, we also had several parcels of peas 

 from Middlesex, some from Kent, and a quantity by steam from Penzance. 

 Presuming the difference of season, as compared with the last, equal to ten 

 days, I cannot observe any difference in the time of supphes to the markets 

 pf the two capitals. — G. C. May 23. 



Art. VII. Obituary. 



Died, April 22d, at Bellwood, in the county of Perth, WilUam Dickson, Esq., 

 of Barnhill, formei'ly of the house of Dickson and Brown, now Dickson and 

 Turnbull, of Perth, nursery and seedsmen. Mr. Dickson was one of the five 

 sons of Mr. Robert Dickson of Hassendeanburn, the father of nurserymen in 

 Scotland, and a brother of Walter Dickson, Esq., of Edinburgh, who retired 

 from business some years ago, and who must now be the senior nurseryman 

 in Scotland. A notice of this family, from the establishment of the Hassen- 

 deanburn Nursery in 1728 to the present time, will be found in our Arboretum 

 Britannician. William Dickson of Perth is said to have been remarkable for 

 a peculiarly systematic manner of doing business. Neither he nor his brother 

 at Edinburgh ever married. 



