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Marcu 29, 1856.] 
the powers of the shrew dest observer and the 
statistician. Nor ly han sar ned 
even the most able ; for althoug h “there are Ta 
for all and faris variety in those ration 
ere is no centre of information concern g sucha 
odi operation ; bu 
subject must pick up evidence from ee the cou 
s fragments L Wi i Mr. Dod 
ae be just the pers andle such details; 
as inquired diligently, saga ‘aithfally ‘ntl con- 
sidered skilfully. Such published in 
he d if 
the retail trade. e informa- 
tion oe collected by the author is ample and 
extremely curious, Th ti i bapt 
profoundest 
rmation as existed more like 
ak 
E GARDENERS’ 
showing what a prodigious maw this London of our our’s of 
possesses, 
we must close our notice of 
+} rk 
n one o 
Keeling and Hunt 
ae which a r | 
| written up on x fronts of w ppe 
naries _than it store-houses ; 
CHRONICLE. 
| free flowering so ort even in a kaat state's 
of = house there are planted out in the bo: 
specimen Camellias a a nearly to th 
Thess a hei fp trees loaded w o! 
of immense size and 
yas is frequently the case, the petals 
in pots: were Seabee perfecta nota a rather pretty Kg 
des Fle 
| i y the 
| * The huge ae 
| is 
ing 
J stone cellars, in x 
|in topmost cocklot, not a foo t of space is wasted ; |] 
| every s d 
Thero | | 
entire rely white. Of 
re 
its utmost "fa netio Grapes, Chesnuts, Pine- -apples, 
me e 
cially will reward the most. cursory reader ; for he | 
will be s 
a sed to learn h ride 
s far 
when | up 
p 
» Ha zel- uwis ` Oranges, Lemons, all are there in 
ning abundance, in a ra -loads, i in heaped 
| > tiles, 3 aie 
against a 
Camels have been grow of a here 
wall mae: a north- seh alet for des last 20 
years ; haga and most severe winters without 
rmi 
a 
tors some! ə how barbarous the | food, 
aldermen fed o on porpoises, bined, i lao pottage, 
and roasted milk, while poor men dth er 
with bean-brea a a om 24 
would seem to 
two as 
| wad pen 
es 
scene is going on in another par 
a leaf being i 
of the grea 
In Monument Yard is one of the pen i 
sin this metrpolisin the world. 
the rhe os er- Aer ost daily d seaso 
of the ts they have on hand. 
Bit Wheat 2s. or 2s. 2d., nA Oat 13. 
But fruit and vegetables end Covent Garden are 
“ Fewof our aei places,” 
th o 
appropri 
ear 1222; and there’ has probably 
eek, dur ing a peri 
never been a riod of six centuries and 
a half, 
pi 
r at hosing Pl ‘happens to be "tte betas 
e 
Orange and on business the company comprises 
veral west: yers, with a motley crew of no 
greasy folk from the purlieus of Duke’s Place, Covent 
Garden, and Spitalfields, Those men it is who, buyi 
er u in npe of feed cases, retail them out at a good | a 
ermo and s 
mall shopkeepers.’ An | first 
flowers, pe pe OS as a garden, a 
a market, iS the time g Aa jals ts Ga the e (former) 
Convent Garden was a h larger 
t Drar Laak 
on the east to St. Marts Lane s on the w west, yi Lg of the 
ern to Bedford House the 
wn-residen en of the Erari 
nied a DRS ot of the wey th now 
poems on pe a ta Stree 
mtn announces that a ¢ ipper- 
va a of fine ea early Oranges has just arrived at South- 
ree Pony immediately ‘all i is bustle 
Yard ; a few we 
path tome fe ‘the buyers, east, 
T, 
and west 
e metropolis, informing them vial by ten o'clock | 
ing the t parcel of w 
r A 
brought and plai 
the 
at Monument | scen ted, 
d b 
auctions a long, their beauty so p on ts tarnished. A little protection to 
rio m, looking out upon the grea stone the flow ould however remedy this ; 
Monument, are some desks, a solid table, and rows t F ter what been stated, we 
benches, on which, in all sorts of attitudes, are to b fectl y hardy. 
seen all sorts of fruit bayon When Pine Apples, Stocks on whic h ieie ted 
Grapes, a rench and Dutch soft fruit are on sale, | here in beds under glass, a peri y which better 
the assembly will be rather more select ; but for the | plants are produced than by growing them “wholly in 
i The 
ines varieties to b 
n pits ri glass, and the stocks which are "potted are 
ced round them. Strong oma of 
mer are bent down and inarched on the latter, 
and | in this s way flowering plants are often obtained the 
In the show house were various Rh 
es also very gay, and a delici 
was naidenined by red Indian and other Daj 
on the following morn 
marie yo sadly te will be on view in th 
ing se n the fact that the 
eir warerooms, 
A a 
d 
marked o out pro rt wea end enon of 
hang 
ze of destination in 
prota fruit trade has become, indeed, a 
At the period when nt hrdia] portions o the ei 
foreign Nuts, of various kinds, were brought to London 
s, 
in 185 53, a and a million and g half pounds of Grap 
© Thi arge | effe 
one. o less than a million and a half of chee of 
do 
front shelves were inters with F intermixed 
with plants of Lachenalia bicolor ; these formed as it 
ere a sort rgrowth for standard Azaleas, which 
ising up from among them and overtopping them 
like -a fi ja and wrt ET 
ct. Cupressus funebris and Cryptom japonica 
potted cit ‘plated in were informed, fe 
excellent plants ies, a fact 
ce for worth 
e area by facies who have such ‘intl to deco- 
ava 
garden were thus covered with straight s stree of n 
ou; 
ses, th 
and had a sun- -dial in the middle. The hes ty 
e area alone, 
goodly quantity of Pine Apples, Cherries, ADES 
Pears, and ferizi fruits. 
Bedford House, wa 
sed as a market for oe and vege- 
tables. ji 
They are reported to stand confinement well. 
When Tasintsek and York 
built, at a somewhat later date 
en nearer to Fs 
nm 
á 
© 
5 
© 
ivi 
en ; this offended the aristocratie dwellers on the | 
north side, who one by one left; their deserted man- 
* Fruit ala the costly and the humble, Miscellaneous 
the British anà the foreign—all are now cxparenciag Yerva de P aragucy, oF Ma ba ei Tea, Pp is the 
rapid conveyance, so far as pply of | na aves and 
A “the Londen i is concerned. The Great Northern brings up cide ofa tree in Paraguay, yielding a ii t and 
entre of the £ Potato ty 060 tons in 1854 ; exhilarating infusion. The usual mode of preparing the 
tho-railwi l calabash, or maté, w neck to 
and all together 
y shart of tons of fruit and scutes to aD in a | 
modern 
plet r: 
a | it, which, cut off, leaves a small hol e, the tod 
being about the eighth | a ot A iat. 1 To prepare a 
sions became o occupied mostly as as ho tels ; and to thi is 
th ra . At 
y 
+ ge 
he pores oor, and ¢ gran is in 
Len ti fc: it did not grow in cleanlin 
year. On ne of the curious results of ou 
tif C 
good things on any one morning, she sends “off a tele- 
area an 
or rete aes Until within pig ot quarter of a 
it was very unsightly and incommodious ; the sheds rtf 
in cea condition ; $ the filth 
the 
to Birmingham, or other large towns, 
follow hich, as an 
article. « ‘dear bought = se tbe” = pate by 
p nt 
to ascertain the state of th 
room for more, Palani one ‘of fruit are sent off by 
rail ; z and thus ces becom equalised a nd acti 
pampas 
Ayres, the poor Gauchos invite the traveller ame 
maté ci cimarron, | Á e, an infusion of wild X berks, anale- 
or balm, or 
disorder terrible ; the 
of the market "people was fendered s till more reckless 
by tb the total of ana of ain i reseed 
comfort and —— man: t e need n 
how much things are altered now. 
f fruit and presales j in this 
other London markets, ams seems to be no possi- 
bits of arriving at anything a probable estimate. 
] ecting Mr. Mayhew s pa Ben t in the Morn onii 
fM excessive, our author gives a more reliab! 
say. sepii a in 
at the King’s bane termin e South-Eastern 
Railway brought up to ar Bricklayer” Arms 
mnt first half of nee E less than 48,000 
frui it and vegetables, 
Hp this i is far below t 
rb tea. The 
word cimarron is applied i pays men al, pie 
1 the West Indies they cll them Ma 
corruption adron an 
pgm E 
negroes. În 
It is probably a 
is-Marrucco, 
P 
ee Mr. B Braithwaite Poole, from the usages of his office | with’ 
French now call Spain im * Afrina = pin the ei ary A 
literally, a pagba pe te A 
take agua caliente, 
hich bao eerie or lemon peel is i. 
these are beggarly appliances, and the true thing ia a 
her maté de yerva— the herb,” whieh is held to 
univ ther prepar 
be 
ed in the simple cala- 
as r way, is accustomed to|a fair average of other vegetables and fruits, The| bash, or the silv » made in imitation 
ities by the ton weight, which sometimes Kent Road was in a turmoil all night,—nothing but | the wealthy. Tomar un : is d 
renders it difficult to compare his estimates with those Jaden aggons following cup of the yerva infusion, Whether r 
of other authorities, The fı ing remarkable n | Of the wonders of he Hop-trade at the Bricklayers’ , the cottage, or the wilderness, the process 18 
is given by him as representing the weight of the prin- | Arms ta future chapter wi wit Ly t is fol The is boiled ina copper 
sgm ‘kinds of vegetables sold ad the London markets | that, when Covent Garden ket receives bellied below, and with a neck and a 
—Potatoes, 138,000 tons; Cabbages, 80,000 ; special inundations of good ting i it ghee be ear} above; a such as I verily believe Ishmael 
Tarnipe, 43,600 ; Onions, 36,850; Broccoli, 31,950 ; ght the Arabs to make, from traditions of 
Carrots, 8050; Turnip-tops, 4150; Peas, 3900 ; Cucum- | portions into the country for sale ; and the electric | Cain. The maté is then half filled with yerva, 
hers, 2200 ; Rhubarb, 2100 ; Lettu 050 ; Beans, | telegraph a peculiar aid sy by diffusing a| bombilla has been placed in position. 
2630 ; Celery, ; Radi 750; Onions, <a the state of the markets in any part of| is literally a “little pump,” that is, a 
650 ; etable Marrow, 300; 260 ;| England. ending a perforated bulb, w hich performs: 
Herbs, 250. diaphragm in our teapot spouts. Some 
“The same hemi tl fo pitt the same ping use sugar with the infusion, epicunes burnt) sugar, and 
of „gives| M . AUXE. fine collecti Yai pade A a aO 
relatin a es, 17,150 tons; | of Came! or which this nursery g been | put a blac curran tea 
Pears, site ; Gooseberies yy s Pine 4550 ; Cur- | celebrated is now in full bloom, and we need not add water being poured on, the preparation is 
peer ; Damsons, 1 ; Cherries, 927 ; Straw- | that it is well worth inspection. When we state that| the imbiber, in both hands in cold 
7003 Filberts, 2 ” Hazel Nuts, 226 ; Mul- they form a bank 160 Ser aera a feet in | weather, > Wi not to burn his 
epth, 
54; Ras berri 
Sp: pai el are piers as Mr. Dodd 
tain, They however assist in 
tainment which so large a pe comment ee 
afford. At certain distances apart. 
it, and so on til all the strength is gone, when it is n 
all along the ccnleh aniyan filled again, till all the company is sup- 
