New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-24
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FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN MARKET.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN MARKET.
rur .rPpIY GROWING sMALLER-Bow To BASE
Pr.Ps-GFRMAN CARP AND ITS QUALITIES
SATURDAYS PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
The heyday for the greengrocer In the markets
Is passing away for now most OF the delicious
fruits and delicate vegetables OF summer TINE are
% be had only in cans However. the purchaser can
be corsolcA By the reflection that The preservers
have never had better for putting MP choice
fruits than the past summer The grocery shops are
filing M with gorgeously decorated cans presenting
ante an art exhibition for chromolovers but there
will be little demand for this line of goods as long
~ any fresh vegetables or fail fruits re-
nam in market Good cooking pears are
selling for 10 cents per quart. lhey make
an easily prepared and most excellent dessert
if properly baked-the old-fashioned way OF baking
pears with molasses syrup is detesta be The bet
ter mo le il take quart Of selected Cooking pears
peel them carefully place them on eDd III dripping
pam stick bit OF dried OraRce peal IN each one,
tnen pour each pear about tour tablesp"Oh'uls
OF Ight brown sugar; MI ire pan about tWo-tllu9
fill oil water and set them III the oven Ia oaAe un-
I'll tender. Do not let them fall to pieces; PIE IN
glass dish and pour the syrup over them 70 serve.
Seckel pears are 80 cents per quart; fcrgHlru ana
other eating varieties sell from 30 CENTS tu 81 per
dozen; Catawba grapes are selling at cents per
pound; Delawares. 10 cepts; few Concerts are 70
be found and those not desirable; California grapes
sell irOm 80 10 30 cents Der pound. ana very nlce
fiye-pOund boxes be had tor 81 % per box ihe
best eating apples ~ market now are the opiizeh-
brrs and Lady-applc they sell from 20 10 30 cents
per quar-: the price of cooking apples have not
changed; bananas are from 40 TO 90 cents per
dozen.
Nee string beans are still TO be found ID market
at 30 cents per peck green peas also at 30 cnts;
green corn Dot extra, IL Is cents per dozen; Lima
beans, SD He'd at % cents per quart; eau uowers
are from - 81 20 cents per beidi cIan3erres Se'
FRI 10 10 cents per quart nne fhl heads 81 -
tuce are from 3 20 > cents ;. held celery , ,'n's
per bunch; egg plant fTou 70 10 cents; PampAlnS
10 IL cents apiece; oyster plant. lpcents uucn;
tuFnps 20 cents per peck; potatoes ars ron % 90
80 cents Per peek; sweet potatoes from 10 10 %
cents: tomatoes. 20 cents: onions. 30 cents; cab
bsges, t. ; CENTS apiece; beets canis BUNCH
The poultry III mar let Is very hne and plentiful:
The price for the best Philadelphia dry rex "a
chickens = sIIll - cents per pound; spring cnlrh
ems are 21 cents per pound; ordinary chicHeL>
iron. II 70 % cents; fowls 10 10 - eehis' tame
ducks and turkeys sell al 20 cents pr pound; NON
grel 20 % cents mongrel cucss the same. Par
tTiuge IL market sell from II - 70 II 90 rer pair;
woodcock 81 per palr; grouse ; - sqaab - %
20 ~ per doZ -: Iug N shlpr - per dozen; power
So teal duck are from 50 TO Is cents, wOodduck
-; nalards ~ to II %, and redheads II %
Der dozen small OiIds 70 cents IeedbiTds : p;
ycnisOn i - cents T pound.
In the downtown grocery stores cut sugar Is
selling a; IL cents Der pound, gTanuiaied lOl2,
powdered sugar. l0l2. Nsht brown CENTS. and dark
brown el4. OoloEg tea 30 10 80 cents pr pound.
EngiIsb breakfast 30 10 90 cents. youue nTscn,
filc extra. from 30 cents 10 - flee from 20 -
80 Genus per pound.
Inc fish market Is very abnniantly supplied with
fish IN season and ouf. lie tnlted states Fish
Commissioners report that this has been unusual
year for fishing interest All ;he United States
fishing pJr:S have done remaThaol! Wcll; the
mackerel catch mas been large aud the nsh of
much better condition both ~ 20 size and meat
than any seen for many years. 4 few years the
United states Elsa Commissioners rec wed about
900 German carp ard sine thrn they have raised
ana ulstributed over 10000 ln this country. Ten
Young carp given 10 iii. H. II. McGOyern, OF Long
Islaud. year ago wee placed IL his ponds. and
have made tie most remarkable growth ever Known
4 specimen one IS ~ tank in fulton MARKET, and
has grown froui I, ounce - one pound aLu elevea
ounces ~ a single year LcSc hsh are % hrn
flesh aud good YOr, and prOaiS 70 De- -rrat taFoF-
ties H. orr markets. Bass selling al - cents pr
pound. bUeIl>l = cents. sDeltS - cents, IclrgtI-
atsd salmon 30 cents, M4ckelei u 10 10 cents.
Wraktsh 10 G. nis, whiic peTcu - cents ier pound
ter PIN SIS 70 $50 PEE dozen, green turtle -
cents pr pound, halbuI Is cents, hattocG cents
porgts 10 cents, sea bas, Il cents, reis Is cents
Holsters 10 Genus, sueepsLelc - cents; sca!icp-
81 gallon. sof; clans 40 20 80 cent, per hun FED
tr,sn water hsh u. market are The wuuehsh al 10
G nts per pound. pickvIei l2l2 cents. clscOes -
cents DomiauO 20 cents, hlr. crabs - 30 peT buu
dred Frogs so - 20 cents Ter pound.
Tue best buttcr l. stlli selling AT So cents, ard
some fresh creamery brings 40 aud IL GEMS per
pound; dairy butter = - cents pr pound cheese
10 cents Legs - 10 40 cents a dozen.
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Cream S01p.
OsstcI Iates
Roast Turkey. Mashed Potatoes CsuinOEer swee5
Potatoes
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Cpr. -. Waters.
B4ticT iuG.iuE. B-Scl Pe2rs-
Grsi~s and Apples