... curious specimen of an American esculent, called the Virginian Poke, which is used in the United States at a sobstitute for asparagus, to which it is con- sidered quite equal when dressed in the proper manner. Many of the flowers from the society's garden ...

... preflitilhsti i kind. In faet, their systems seemed to aet i unison, thlougli their Pulses differed in frcqolel cy a ' a and asparagus eaten by the one did not il~pl55iiat@ q,, I penuliar otour the urine of the otbei.-DI, . tl'lb° a M'redicat Tirnes cins' ...

... MARTIN'S HALL. M1R. LAWLER'S CONCERT. We have to add another to the nrumerous concerts which cosein with the zephyrs and early asparagus, and cluster toaither in agreeable profusion at this season of the year. M. leavler, the bass singer at the Chapel R1oyal ...

... for a fine dish of Muscat grapes. Mr. Ingram, gardener of the Royal Gardens, Frogmore, also received a prize for some fine asparagus, the hundred heads exhibited weighine twelve pounds. The specimens were raised in pits, heated by hot water-pipes placed ...

... of first-class vegetables, fore~in and doraestic, occupied a room by themselves, amoug wnhicb we remarked some gigantic asparagus, from Mrs John stone, of Covent-garden. The SECRETARY announced that the rare ChsanAecypsi3 thurifera would be distributed ...

... giving a short but inost eloquent P eulogy of feelingr as suocrior to intellect. Fontenelle v was the saonsit w ho loved asparagus boiled in oil, and having once ordered his favourite dish to be cooked half ce in oil and half in melted butter, so that ...

... 6i4 eels 8d to Is Od, prawvis 5s, stur4 'll 11r halibut 6d per lb ; plaice 4d to is, anid guruets 4,i ;o 1. COVENT-GARDEN. Asparagus &S Od to 4s Od, rhuilrrb ri to Odt. li Odi Sd to Is 3r per bunidle ; cuetricibers lid to 2s Ul1l ea.il ajles 3s Od to 6s ...

... by English sgardenors, the only collection shown being OCe froim France, consisting of specimens of fine sehito nnd greos asparagus, sea kale, lettnaces, and carrots. There were fouuoeen competitors of table pears, the finest being a collec- tion of French ...

... ditto Bs 4d to 4s Od, Veal 4s Od to fi 4d, Pork 3s 4d to es 10d, Lamb 5s 2d to CO 8d per Sibs by the carcass. COVENT GARDEN. Asparagus 3, to 6s, aud Broooli 6d to is d per bundle ; Cucum- bers 64 to 2s Gd each; Strawberries is Od per small pottlo; Apples Os ...

... best Mutton 4s 6d to 4s 8d; inferior t te 3s 8d; yeal 4s Bd to 4e lodd; Pork 43 to 4s St 5 r1 the . COVENT-GARDEN. Forced Asparagus 5s Od to & Od, Rbiba is 6d, and Broceli is Od to 2s Cd per lunde ?? to 6s Od, Onions is 3d to Is 9d, ditto for pijcklJO to ...

... passage in lalckroodrl for hi August, 1846 :-A garden without fowers has so much the st more room for the growth of celery, asparagus, artichokes, e? and the like. There could not possibly be a greater conve- N nienco than the evaporation or disappeatrance ...

... Behrens, of Travemunde. Magnificent grapes came from Trentham, among which were hunches of the black Hamburg just ripe ; asparagus equal to the finest Fiench samples, kidney beans, and the handsoimnest basket of mushrooms we ever saw, were sup- plied by ...