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and grouse after August 12. Hares all FRUIT. - Peaches, pears, figs, bullace, grapes, through; quail and landrails.
FISIH. Cod, haddock, flounders, plaice, skate, thornback, mullets, salmon, till the 25th September, pike, carp, eels, shellfish-except oysters. Mackerel the first two months of the quarter, but not good in August.
VEGETABLES. Of all sorts. Beans, peas, French-beans, &c. &c.
FRUIT.-In July-Strawberries, gooseberries, pine-apples, plums (various), cherries, apricots, raspberries, melons, currants, damsons. In August and September, peaches, plums, figs, filberts, mulberries, cherries, apples, pears, nectarines, grapes. Latter months, pines, melons, strawberries. Medlars and quinces in the latter months. Morella cherries, damsons, and various plums.
OCTOBER.
MEAT as before, and doe venison.
POULTRY AND GAME-Fowls as in the last quarter. Pheasants from the first of October; partridges, grouse, larks, hares, dotterels. At the end of the month, wildducks, teal, snipes, widgeon. FISH-Dories, smelts, pike, perch, halibut, brill, carp, barbel, gudgeon, tench, shellfish.
VEGETABLES. As in January. Frenchbeans, last crops of beans, &c. apples, medlars, damsons, filberts, walnuts, nuts, quinces, services. NOVEMBER.
MEAT. - Beef, mutton, veal, pork, doe venison.
POULTRY AND GAME as in last month.
FISH as in last month.
VEGETABLES. - Carrots. turnips, parsnips, potatoes, onions, leeks, shalots, cabbage, savoys, colewort, spinach, cresses, endive, celery, lettuces, salad, herbs, potherbs. FRUIT.-Pears, apples, nuts, walnuts, bullace, chestnuts, medlars, grapes. DECEMBER.
MEAT. -Beef, mutton, veal, house lamb, pork, and doe venison.
POULTRY AND GAME. - Geese, turkeys, pullets, pigeons, capons, fowls, chickens rabbits, hares, snipes, woodcocks, larks pheasants, partridges, guinea-fowl, wildducks, teal, widgeon, dotterels, dunbirds, grouse, and ptarmigan. FISH.--Cod, turbot, halibut, soles, gurnets, carp, pike, gudgeons, eels, dories, shellfish.
VEGETABLES. - As in the last month, and asparagus forced, &c.
FRUIT as in the last month.