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sixteen weeks. He had just (May 25th) begun to cut in his earliest 

 houses. The vines are so far apart that abundance of light is 

 admitted between each main stem, and to this circumstance, the 

 dryness of the fire heat, and also the dryness of the soil and 

 subsoil, Mr. Norman attributes the high flavour of the grapes, 

 which, he says, are the highest in flavour which are brought to 

 Covent Garden Market. The borders are broad, occasionally 

 very slightly cropped, or sometimes mulched, and in very dry 

 weather, while the fruit is growing, watered along the outer ex- 

 tremity, where most of the fibrous roots are supposed to be. The 

 kinds grown here, and also in the Rose Hill Nursery, are almost 

 entirely the Hamburgh, with a few of the white Nice for the 

 size of the bunch, and one or two muscats for flavour; but, as 

 the muscats now seldom bring a higher price than the Ham- 

 burghs, they are not much grown. 



Rogers's Flower-Garde?!, and Parsons' 's Flower- Garden, both 

 on the Western Road, have had considerable accessions of glass 

 since we noticed them in our volume for 1829, and we found 

 an increased variety of pelargoniums and new showy greenhouse 

 plants. Both parties have several acres of ground about a mile 

 out of town. 



The Market-Gardens which supply the ordinary vegetables 

 to the Brighton market are mostly at the distance'of a mile or 

 two in the interior; but the superior vegetables are brought from 

 the neighbourhood of Shoreham, and from different places along 

 the coast as far as Arundel. We saw excellent asparagus, 

 broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuces, rhubarb, &c. Lettuces 

 of the brown Cos kind were particularly abundant, and chiefly 

 as this variety stands the winter near the sea as well as the 

 common cabbage. We found two excellent kinds of potato in 

 the market, brought from Storrington, not far from Arundel. 

 The one was called the Yorkshire kidney, and the other was a 

 roundish potato, neither of them hollow-eyed, or showing the 

 least symptom of vegetation on June 3d, the day we left 

 Brighton. We learn from the grower, Mr. Linfield, that these 

 potatoes, which are grown in a sandy peaty soil, are kept in 

 pies ; that is, buried in pits in dry sandy soil that does not 

 retain water. The flesh of the round potato is yellow, rather 

 waxy than mealy, very solid in consistence, and of an excellent 

 flavour. They may be had of Mr. Linfield, Storrington, or, in 

 Brighton, of Wilkins, a fruiterer in East Street. 



There seems a very general taste for keeping pots of flowers 

 in the windows in Brighton, more particularly pelargoniums, 

 and a number of these, with heaths and other plants, are ex- 

 posed in the market. Among them we noticed some fine double 

 bloody and double yellow wallflowers ; a double wallflower, very 

 fragrant, which appeared to be a hybrid between a wallflower and 



