Baskets employed by the London gardeners, being made of osier or deal shavings, vary triflingly in size more than measures made of less flexible materials. They are as follows: -

See kale punnets - eight inches diameter at the top, and seven inches and a half at the bottom, and two inches deep.

Radish punnets - eight inches diameter, and one inch deep, if to hold six hands; or nine inches by one inch for twelve hands.

Mushroom punnets - seven inches by one inch.

Salading-punnets - five inches by two inches.

Half sieve - contains three imperial gallons and a half. It averages twelve inches and a half diameter, and six inches in depth.

Sieve - contains seven imperial gallons. Diameter, fifteen inches; depth, eight inches.

Bushel sieve - ten imperial gallons and a half. Diameter at top, seventeen inches and three quarters; at bottom, seventeen inches; depth, eleven inches and a quarter.

Bushel basket - ought, when heaped, to contain an imperial bushel. Diameter at bottom ten inches; at top, fourteen inches and a half; depth, seventeen inches. Walnuts, nuts, apples, and potatoes are sold by this measure. A bushel of the last-named, cleaned, weighs fifty-six pounds, but four pounds additional are allowed if they are not washed.

There is one description of Basket of which we think the Londoners know but little. We allude to the Peach Basket.' It would excite no ordinary commotion were one of our noble steamboats to ascend the Thames, laden with a thousand or more baskets, each containing a bushel of ripe luscious peaches, which are frequently sold in Philadelphia at twenty-five cents the basket. Yet such is the sight which may be seen (in fruitful seasons) on the Delaware every day in August.