... some splendid acacias, in a collection of store and greenhouse plants, from Mr. Bruce. The vegetables, including sea-kale, asparagus, brocoli, &c., were of good growth, and exhibited what might be done with careful cultivation. Large silver medals were awarded ...

... the latter, from the gardens at Chiswick, were shown. But the most extraordinary exhibition of the day was a specimen of asparagus, sent by Mr. Grayson, from his grounds at Mortlake. There were 123 buds, and thry weighed tw•entyright pounds, exceeding ...

... and vegetables have already made their appearance in Covent-garden market. New potatoes have been selling at 6d. a lb,. asparagus at 6s. a hundred, rhubarb 3s. a bundle, cucumbers from 3s. to 10s. each. Mr. Barry•, the architect, has been elected an associate ...

... did not observe. All I could find were a few cabbage lettuces, some long white or Naples radishes, and a small quantity of asparagus ; which naturally surprised me. es I had only a few days before left the environs of Covent Garden-market, in which all these ...

... or third week, for a main crop ; kidney beans in the second week, for an. early, and in the last week, for a late crop ; asparagus and parsnips, in the first or second week, but not later ; red• beet, in the third week, for a full crop, and also nasturtiums ...

... Grlndlay and Co., 16. Cornbill, or 8, St. alartin's.place, Charing-cross , or to F. Green and Co. 64 Cornhill. TO LOVERS OF ASPARAGUS.— ..a. The great drawback to the thorough enjoyment of this delicious vegetable has hitherto been the impossibility of eating ...

... infant died, it was deemed a martyr : if it lived, it was styled a saint.—Churchman. Paper has been made in Belgium from asparagus ends. We recqmmend it to the cook for lamb cutlets.—Mirror. A cast iron lighthouse, intended for Jamaica, may be seen from ...

... bread-baskets, &c., all warranted the best isheffleld make; table and dessert forks and spoons, soup-ladles, grape-scissors. asparagus-tongs, nutcracks, dessert knives and forks in case, jet necklaces, and numerous other fancy articles, all at a considerable ...

... sometimes the common mushroom (agaricus campestris.) Third week.—Raspberries and gooseberries ripe, potatoes in flower, asparagus in berry, the Wilms in perfection. Fourth week.—The truele (tubercibarium) now hunted, or dug up in commons and forests; ...

... bread-baskets, &c., all warranted the best Shetleld make table and dessert forks and spoons, soup-ladles, grape-scissors. asparagus-tongs, nutcracks, dessert knives and forks in case, jet necklaces. and numerous other fancy articles.all at a considerable ...

... the poor, and I never heard him accused of egotism or insensibility, lie related before me that ridiculous story of the asparagus with oil, but he named it as having happened to a doctor of the Sorbonne, and it was forty or fifty years afterwards, when ...

... vegetable cultivated in India, which he considered might be introduced with some success here, as a substitute for sea-kale and asparagus. Several prises were awarded. WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.—A quarterly meeting of the above ...