Great Garden Convolvulus. _Convolvulus purpureus._
Dedicated to _St. Eustathius_.
[212] Journal des Debats.
~July 17.~
_St. Alexius_, 5th Cent. _St. Speratus_ and his Companions. _St.
Marcellina_, A. D. 397. _St. Ennodius_, Bp. A. D. 521. _St. Leo_ IV.,
Pope, A. D. 855. _St. Turninus_, 8th Cent.
_Mackerel._
The mackerel season is one of great interest on the coast, where these
beautiful fish are caught. The going out and coming in of the boats are
really “sights.” The prices of mackerel vary according to the different
degrees of success. In 1807, the first Brighton boat of mackerel, on the
14th of May, sold at Billingsgate, for forty guineas per hundred, seven
shillings each, the highest price ever known at that market. The next
boat that came in reduced their value to thirteen guineas per hundred.
In 1808, these fish were caught so plentifully at Dover, that they sold
sixty for a shilling. At Brighton, in June, the same year, the shoal of
mackerel was so great, that one of the boats had the meshes of her nets
so completely occupied by them, that it was impossible to drag them in.
The fish and nets, therefore, in the end sank together; the fisherman
thereby sustaining a loss of nearly sixty pounds, exclusive of what his
cargo, could he have got it into the boat, would have produced. The
success of the fishery in 1821, was beyond all precedent. The value of
the catch of sixteen boats from Lowestoft, on the 30th of June, amounted
to 5,252_l._ 15_s._ 1¼_d._, being an average of 328_l._ 5_s._ 11¼_d._
per each boat; and it is supposed that there was no less a sum than
14,000_l._ altogether realized by the owners and men concerned in the
fishery of the Suffolk coast.[213]
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