Potatoes all the year round. There need be but little fear of a potato- famine. During the past few years, when our own crop has been light, large quantities were imported from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany. The first new potatoes come from Bermuda about April i. Sweet potatoes from August until June. Peas from March until November. Parsnips from September until June. Pumpkins from September until February. Romaine salad can be had in the spring and fall. Radishes all the year round; they are very scarce in hot weather. Rhubarb from February until July. Brussels-sprouts from October until April. We import the very finest from France during March and April, but our growers are improv- ing in raising them from year to year, and we hope before long to rival the French. Kale-sprouts from November until June. Shallots all the year round. They are green in spring and summer and can be had dry during winter. 2 1 8 THE TABLE. Spinach all the year round; it is covered up in the early winter to keep it from freezing, but occasionally during extreme cold weather the cold reaches it, when it is impossible to cut it, which makes it scarce and high in the markets. Sorrel can be had all the year round; it is raised mostly by French gardeners. White and yellow summer-squash from April until October. Marrow-squash all the year round, except May and part of June; they are used quite generally to make pies instead of pumpkins. Tomatoes can be had all the year round, except December and part of January. The first new ones come from Key West; they are of excellent quality. White and ruta-baga turnips can be had all the year round. Estragon appears from March until December. WATER-MELONS AND MUSK-MELONS. WATER-MELONS first make their appearance in market about the first of July, and can be had until the middle of October. Un- like the musk-melon, they are of a rather hardy nature, and after the melon has grown on the vine, the changes in temperature, or rain, have little effect on them. The first in market come from Florida, and as the season advances we get them from further North, until New Jersey is reached. More melons are raised in Georgia than in any other State, and of far better quality. The best variety to be relied on, as to quality, is known as the " Gem." Musk-melons, although raised in nearly all parts of the country where the climate will admit, are seldom shipped to New York from any distance further than North Carolina, as a musk-melon, in order to be of good fla- vor, must be ripened, or nearly so, on the vine. When ripe they are so easily cracked or mashed that they would not stand transportation. For the past two or three years, a few, of a rather hard-rind variety, but of excellent flavor, have been shipped from New Orleans, but with only partial success, as the cost of transportation and the loss are so great that it hardly pays. We often hear the remark, " I have not eaten a good melon this season." This can be easily explained.

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Potatoes all the year round. There need be but little fear of a potatofamine. During the past few years, when our own crop has been light, large quantities were imported from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany. The first new potatoes come from Bermuda about April i. Sweet potatoes from August until June. Peas from March until November. Parsnips from September until June. Pumpkins from September until February. Romaine salad can be had in the spring and fall. Radishes all the year round; they are very scarce in hot weather. Rhubarb from February until July. Brussels-sprouts from October until April. We import the very finest from France during March and April, but our growers are improving in raising them from year to year, and we hope before long to rival the French. Kale-sprouts from November until June. Shallots all the year round. They are green in spring and summer and can be had dry during winter. Spinach all the year round; it is covered up in the early winter to keep it from freezing, but occasionally during extreme cold weather the cold reaches it, when it is impossible to cut it, which makes it scarce and high in the markets. Sorrel can be had all the year round; it is raised mostly by French gardeners. White and yellow summer-squash from April until October. Marrow-squash all the year round, except May and part of June; they are used quite generally to make pies instead of pumpkins. Tomatoes can be had all the year round, except December and part of January. The first new ones come from Key West; they are of excellent quality. White and ruta-baga turnips can be had all the year round. Estragon appears from March until December. WATER-MELONS AND MUSK-MELONS. WATER-MELONS first make their appearance in market about the first of July, and can be had until the middle of October. Unlike the musk-melon, they are of a rather hardy nature, and after the melon has grown on the vine, the changes in temperature, or rain, have little effect on them. The first in market come from Florida, and as the season advances we get them from further North, until New Jersey is reached. More melons are raised in Georgia than in any other State, and of far better quality. The best variety to be relied on, as to quality, is known as the " Gem." Musk-melons, although raised in nearly all parts of the country where the climate will admit, are seldom shipped to New York from any distance further than North Carolina, as a musk-melon, in order to be of good flavor, must be ripened, or nearly so, on the vine. When ripe they are so easily cracked or mashed that they would not stand transportation. For the past two or three years, a few, of a rather hard-rind variety, but of excellent flavor, have been shipped from New Orleans, but with only partial success, as the cost of transportation and the loss are so great that it hardly pays. We often hear the remark, " I have not eaten a good melon this season." This can be easily explained.

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