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 exposed 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 a Virginian stock, and which, though called French, was, we were informed, first introduced to Brighton by the late Mr. Cobbett of Horse Hill Nursery, near Woking. There is also here a single wallflower called the Harlequin, which bears yellow, dark brown, and nearly white flowers, all expanded at the same time.
