JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
116 
CO VENT GARDEN MARKET.—AUGUST 2ND. 
Trade has been quiet during the week, our market settling down to a more 
steady business. 
FRUIT. 
s. d. 
8. 
d. 
8. 
d. 
8. 
d. 
0 0 to 0 
0 
Lemons. 
20 
fttoao 
o 
Apricots. 
box 
1 6 
2 
0 
Melons . 
2 
0 
4 
0 
4 sieve 
G 0 
12 
0 
Nectarines.. 
4 
0 
12 
0 
Chestnuts. 
bushel 
0 0 
0 
0 
Oranges .... 
4 
0 
6 
0 
Currants, Black.. 
i sieve 
3 C 
4 
0 
Peaches .... 
4 
0 
12 
0 
„ Red.... 
i sieve 
2 6 
3 
6 
Pears,kitchen .. dozen 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Figs. 
dozen 
4 0 
0 
0 
dessert .... 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Filberts. 
tb. 
0 0 
0 
0 
Pine Apples, 
English tb. 
3 
0 
4 
0 
Cobs. 
100 ft. 
0 0 
0 
0 
Raspberries . 
lb. 
0 
3 
0 
6 
Qoosebarries .... 
4 sieve 
2 6 
3 
6 
Strawberries 
lb. 
0 
6 
1 
0 
Grapes . 
lb. 
1 0 
4 
6 
VEGETABLES. 
s. d. 
s. 
d. 
8. 
d. 
8. 
d. 
2 0 t.n 4 
0 
1 
ft to 1 
6 
Asparagus. 
bundle 
0 0 
0 
0 
Mushrooms 
l 
0 
i 
6 
Beans, Kidney... 
100 
1 0 
0 
0 
Mustard & Cress ..punnet 
0 
2 
0 
3 
Beet, Red. 
. dozen 
1 0 
2 
0 
Onions. 
0 
6 
0 
6 
Broccoli. 
bundle 
0 9 
i 
6 
Parsley. 
doz.bunches 
3 
0 
4 
0 
Brussels Sprouts. 
i sieve 
0 0 
0 
0 
Parsnips .. .. 
1 
0 
2 
0 
dozen 
0 6 
1 
0 
Peas . 
0 
10 
0 
0 
100 
1 6 
2 
0 
6 
0 
7 
0 
Carrots . 
bunch 
0 4 
0 
6 
Kidney.... 
6 
0 
8 
0 
Cauliflowers . 
dozen 
2 0 
3 
0 
Radishes.... 
doz .bunches 
1 
0 
0 
6 
bundle 
1 6 
2 
0 
0 
4 
0 
6 
Coleworts_doz. 
bunches 
2 0 
4 
0 
Salsafy. 
1 
0 
0 
0 
Cucumbers. 
. each 
0 4 
0 
6 
Scorzonera 
1 
6 
0 
0 
dozen 
1 0 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Fennel. 
bunch 
0 3 
0 
0 
Shallots .... 
0 
8 
0 
0 
Grlic . 
tb. 
0 6 
0 
0 
Spinach .... 
8 
ft 
0 
0 
Herbs. 
bunch 
0 2 
0 
0 
tb. 
0 
6 
0 
8 
Leeks. 
. bunch 
0 3 
0 
4 
Turnips, new 
0 
6 
0 
0 
POULTRY AND PIGEON CHRONICLE. 
MAXIMUM PRODUCE OF FARM CROPS. 
(Continued from page 93.) 
In continuation of the subject we intend to record the growth 
of a crop of winter Oats grown after Wheat on a fine sandy loam 
soil on the Manor Farm, Durley, in the North Hants division of 
the county, occupied by Mr. Edward Waters, who informs us that 
in 1868 he grew a crop of winter Oats, which reached 9 quarters 
and 6 bushels per acre of fine quality. This, as compared with 
the common varieties of spring-sown Oats, does not seem very 
remarkable ; it is, however, well known that winter Oats never 
yield so much in proportion to the bulk of straw, but we in¬ 
troduce this crop as the largest we have known in our own ex¬ 
perience of this variety. 
Having finished the principal records we have obtained of 
the different cereal crops, w r e shall now refer to pulse crops and 
seeds. Taking first a crop of common Scotch Beans grown by 
Mr. John Wilson of Berwickshire, who states that he grew some 
years previous to 1824, but cannot give the year, a field of 11 acres, 
which yielded 600 bushels. This information we quote from his 
letter to J. C. Morton, Esq., and given in the Journal of the Royal 
Agricultural Society in 1859. Our next record comes from the 
other end of the kingdom, and was given to us in 1827 by a Mr. R. 
Hickley, who farmed his own property at Bursledon near South¬ 
ampton. He stated that he grew in the year 1812, on a field of 
7 acres, the land being a very strong clay loam with a south 
aspect, a crop of the common sort of horse Bean of the period, of 
20 sacks per acre on the average, but that upon a measured acre 
the produce reached 28 sacks, and this upon land which had 
never been manured for a period of sixty years, but farmed upon 
the ancient system—a fallow every fourth year, followed by Wheat, 
Lent corn, and pulse or Clover. We have, however, now to 
notice a remarkable record of a Bean crop grown in the same 
year, 1812, in a field within sight of the land just named, and at 
that time farmed by the owner, Mr. George Cleverly, it being a 
field of 4 acres surrounded by woodlands, with a north-west 
[ August 3, 1882. 
aspect, and the soil of an exceedingly strong putty-like clay 
We do not know what was the previous crop, but the Beans were 
sown broadcast, and the crop never hoed or cleaned in any way, 
and our informant stated that the Thistles which went to seed 
were nearly as thick as the Bean stalks, and yet the produce 
was 28 sacks per acre on the average. This information was 
obtained from various persons in the neighbourhood, but espe¬ 
cially from a labourer of the district, who stated that when he 
was a lad he assisted his father in the threshing by flail and 
winnowing of the crop. A most curious circumstance, however, 
is, that the land was never afterwards cultivated, and to thi3 
day is run to waste and woodland. 
We have now to notice Peas as a farm crop, although they are 
generally very uncertain. We shall give the only record we 
have of a crop of Blue Imperial Peas grown by Mr. Davis, the 
tenant of a farm called Otterwood in the New Forest district. 
This occurred, as our informant stated, in the year 1871. There 
was, however, no special management relating to the cultivation 
of the land, which was a strong clay-like gravel. The produce 
was 7 quarters per acre and a very bulky crop of haulm, which 
was unlike Pea haulm in general, the singular circumstance being 
that the cattle would not eat it although well harvested. This 
was certainly a large produce when we consider that from 5 to 
6 quarters is generally the outside produce of the ordinary field 
Peas, such as the Early Dun, Marlborough Grey, and the Maple or 
Partridge. 
A full crop of winter Vetches grown a chalk soil in the district 
of Andover in North Hants in the year 1874 next deserves notice. 
Our informant stated that he was not authorised to give the 
grower’s name, but the facts could be well substantiated. The 
produce was 12 sacks per acre, irrespective of any special or 
particular cultivation or manuring. In the same district, and 
by the same informant, we get the produce of a yield of cow 
grass seed, which was verified as 12 bushels per acre. The same 
gentleman also gave a record of 9 bushels of Broad Clover seed 
grown in the same district. 
We, however, have an interesting account furnished of the 
growth of a crop of 12 bushels per acre of red Clover seed of the 
old English variety as far back as the year 1815, and grown on 
the same field which produced the large crop of Beans in 1812, 
as stated by Mr. Richard Hickley, at Bursledon near Southamp¬ 
ton. Now, when we consider that the ordinary crop of red 
Clover has not amounted to more than 3 or 4 bushels per acre 
average during the past ten or fifteen years, these three sacks per 
acre is an enormous crop, and as it was sold to the late Mr. C. 
Lipscombe, seedsman of Alton, Hants, at Is. per lb., the value of 
the crop almost reached the fee simple of the land. There is, 
however, a point to which we desire attention being given—that, 
in point of fact, it is very rare now to find a sample of old 
English red Clover, foreign-grown seed has been so much sought 
for ; but this foreign seed is much smaller than the old-fashioned 
English sort, and gives but a poor second growth either for hay 
or for seed. 
Now we are considering t’.e subject of seeds we will notice a 
crop of Mangold seed as stated in the Journal of the Royai 
Agricultural Society, to have been grown by Mr. John Bush of 
Long Sutton in Lincoln hire, in 1859, who grew 92 bushels of 
Mangold seed upon 3 roods of land, or equal to 120 bushels 
per acre. This is selected as the yield possible, no history having 
been given in connection with it as to soil, &c. We have now 
to refer to green fodder crops. There is mentioned also in the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England’s Journal of 1859 the 
extraordinary growth of Italian Rye Grass obtained from a poor 
sandy soil at Canning Park Farm, in the neighbourhood of 
Ayr in Scotland, when by the use of 3 or 4 cwt, of guano, &c., 
