New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-18
THE SUPPLY or FRUIT,
WHAT PURCHASES : MAY EXPECT

WHAT PURCHASE : MAY EXPECT
PLENTY OF PEARS PLUMs AND GRApEs-PEACHEs
MORE sCAECE-APPLEs TO BRING mon PRICES
MELONS ABUNDANT
People who are fond Of fruit which means al
most everyone will probably find full supply Of some
kind in the market during therest year. After De
ccmber |. the short crop OF applcs will make itself
felt, the smaller fruits being mostly disposed of
by that time A fair supply OF fall varieties VIII
probably keep prices reasonable untr that date.
There is doubt that tie yield apples will be much
less than last only account of it's being the
on year for apples but because the dry weather has
caused much of the fruit which had "set" to drop
before upcniug. Pears will help to some extent 10
make NJ the deficiency apples the crop rciue heavy
bartlett pears, which few years ago brought SO
barrel have sold recently for 81 to - IL barrel The
licensed vendors have ught largo quantities Of Tho
it ON account Of ia chcapness. Though the merchant
clerks aud boys have eaten nohly, with drppin face,
aud hngers, entced By the taking pacards of" Three for
five ccuts yet the fruit has roted on the street st,ds
and the dark Italian vendors have kept movn, their
carts dsconsolatey from place to place in hopes to find
u brisler trade.
Grapes, TOO, likely TO plentiful and cheap The
nrst pckuSs are now In market. Pums have also
yielded well this year. there being plenty table use
besides large surplus for canning Peaches have ue
somewhat predicted and the finer grades
have brought fancy prices. The uprycr orchards are
yet to send most OF their beauties ,narae ana grow
ers say that the Late CTaWiOrds. Fayurcs
Rareilp"s viii be so line that people VIII grunbe al
good idea OF the fruit may DC gathered from the
following statements 0y commission dealers 10 a
r., A. j. hn-9rouck whose home Is a. Hig1ands-on-tho-
the three heaviest fruit stations the river Esonts ia
getting to be an important station also. We have a tne
kecisie and KS,G"ut boos 5riny ab"nf . nn1 io,s.
each trip The late crop ia just about ready begin
shipping now Ihc trees are very heavy with fruit,
il, that region, the fruit of large size, and very pe
eyf , T9s croh r. SHIPPED mostly IN basLets some
such bulky package and 1t Is only adapted the
frnt in tine, It is lively work To eet inc
product of hfty orchard vineyard down 10 the
they are regular ubasEcts the grapes pc s.t n
We frequently ship 1000 boxes "A night the crop ia ma
heavy as last year but not Of good quality They are
mostly Conc"rds though few white grapes have been
Our crop is marketed principally in fiat wooden crates
and baskets; III Cenual New-York good Iuany are
case The principal stations for gears Iivo Ger
Earsts bcn the m Iare ed ho %S very
are many Flemish Beauties, but Of inferior quality
rot, and many have arrived in New-York ia bad con.
dluon to be sola very low fney were almost cheap
two years ago. Pears are sent TO market in barrels and
maj @ u.s. THe apple Greg very light up the river
have pretty good yield There is good crop pums
o. d the Gor"an prne gaekenbush Rene Claude,
common v9iie1ies They are shipped in twenty pound
ranging tron ~ 80 to SO barrel" ''''''"'
lives ia one of The heavy peacigrowing neghbornoods
our county VIII grow more pcachcE' said
all the rest OF Jersey put together think we VIII
ship 10000 baskets from Fiemington. our varieties
are old Nixon, Prince and Mountain Rareripes CruNy.
lords, stumps and Smokes also few FaVorites
The CrawOrds shy bearers, with ns this
year lhcy come little later the Reeyes's Favor
lie. me Stunps are harny bearers. l know u
tree twenty Did that still produces ten baskets
year The SHOCKS come still later We have had
rs fair "a crop usual in county, and will ship
this year than last. Take the over though
there will not be over half crop of peaches. There II
good crop around MorTstown but they failed gen
orally IN southern Jersey. The Crawfords from The
Peninsula about ali marketed, and smocks down
there have been bought UP by Gamers at 81 basket
We few grapes in part OF the country and not
apples tins year, Smiths Cider being Va
rety. Our pear crop OF Bartletts and few Flemish
Beauties very good. Duchess pears begin
ming to arrive"
member of the firm of Charles Parsons Sons being
asked about the prospects for apples said have
travelling through the State ana find fair crop
taraugus Ere and Chautauqua counties and good half
crop IN Orleans Wayne, Monroe, Niagara and Albany
counties. The quality OF the crop will not he good IA
Louis homes, Vicar OF Wakeheds and DUCHESS
market Prices low"
One of the rm OF b. H. Wood * Co said that they
receiving plenty of pears Albany, Duchess and
Niagara counties, the varieties being Baretts Sheldons,
Flemish Beauties Duchess Scckei aud Virgeleau The
crop, he said large good pears
Ing sold AT 81 barrel Grapes bore heavily, both up
the f1ver and In tie vineyards around Cayuga Lake.
some nice Delawarcs coming In baskets were reshpped
10 BOSTON, Where they brought cents pound. The
r, he added, was unable To get enough good fall APP
pies to satisfy its Southern demand. The varieties
ing FAN Plppin, Grayenstein Maiden Blush,
Nyack Fipin, and ZOouucc apples. Winter apples would
b.. sbt crop everywhere he had heard
Michigan and Maine. The trIn has resolved few