, 1881-07-10
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Tic Supplies in the Chicago Market
md Whence 'CheY Co,,.e.

The Supplies in the Chicago Market.
and Whence Tl,ey Come.
Lovers OF Strawberries will learn not without
| regret that the season for this delicious fruit
will be virtually ovcr this week. The berries
which found their way to the market last week
came from Racine and Milwaukee. and sold ut
from * TO 81 IL sxtecn-qua cr:,te, which Is
higher price than they ever before commanded
ut the close Of tho se:.son. AS rule. the sttaw-
berry season Is over by July 4, but It
| opened late and closed bte this year.
! Some few crates may Tor couple
ot weeks continue to arrive from Grpen
| Buy, but they will be only struggling conslgn-
| 1nents, and after the current week the resrau-
rant-keepcr will strike short eakc from his bill
OF faTe, and the housewife WHO has procrast-
natcd will find that her chance Of putting upa
| hundred-wci.i1t or SO Of strawberry lam has
! gone by for year.
EAS1EEEEIEs
nrc now arriving FROM Michigan, but they are
not nearly So abundant AS they were last rear
and consequently nre selling at considerably
higher prices. This time last season the black
raspberry wa5 selling ut % cents anu the red
raspberry At II per sixteen-4uart crate: this
season they bring 5: per stxtccit-quart crate iUr
the black and !: per twelyc~'!uurt crate for the
red.
Ferry few Llackbcrrics have made their 40.
pc;rstnce rs vet. Some few hnte come In from
Tennessee arriving generally IN ba.l condition.
Ihcy have sold, uccurd:ug to quality, from %
cents to $l.1.5 per twclse-quarl case. As the
growing are. Of these berries moves further
uorth tney Will improve III quality, They nuve
wonderfully wide tE'.nse, aud will he On the
from nov ''usltH the snow tiIee.''
Huckicberrlcs are co1n!ug III from Black River
Fail: and Tunnel City. Wis, and troti Indians
aud Nichigt1i, aud arc selling 1T :: per sixleen-
quart cHse, - the bushel arate. and l25 Tor a
teu-uuart box These berries will hold the mar
kst tor !oag season, thonzh the outlook is that
IL ali fhOr,,
Tcnnessc has been scn.iiug along she supplyof
pltinis, but the consignmeuts from THAT Stats
last. They have begun to come in fru7n South
ern lilillns. and in very short time the home
fruit will be available. The condition OF the
l'lulns hitherto arriving hus been very unequal.
and they have sold during tho week, according
to quality, at from = CENTS 81 the hl!shel box.
: THE SUPPLY OF PEACHES
has also come from Tennessee, but they haye
not proved OF good quality. but small aud
opinion that they have been dried UP with the
hnt weather. Prices have ruled from = cents to
Sl2' per nne-thtrtl -bushci box. \ few to1es,
came i'll during the LITTER part OF the wtek from
Southern Illinois. but they were also OF poor
quality. The only really t.t}od fruit Of this de~
scriptou which hus made its appearance has
colnc from Texas, and fhe reports generally
IRON southern Illinois and other points in the
norther'y line Of the peuch range are nut at Ill
Durln. the week Il few consfgamcnts OF pears
OF RATHER poor variety cllne in from Southern
Illinois. stnd we're disposed Of Mt 81 per one-thtrd~
bushcl box.
The same section OF country also provided
what few apples nsatie their appearance. They
'vcrc rather pdor stuck and sofd ut - 10 20 cent5
for the one third -bl,she box. y Few barrel5;
were sent along frum Kentucky. which sold atj
from $$::.io to ~. II price which shows they are
not of very extra quality
'W-tTE1:MELONS,"
:afd the South Water street fruit-dealer who
supplied tho l::ove Information, lure being sup.
allied in limited quantities from Georgia and
Texas. and ure selling Mt $40 a hundred
- suppose fhc ctlsretl citizen does not cara
70 indulge III tLcln Ut thai price?''
TN. yes: hc Eit1:r have watermelon Wnlt-
.ycr they cost. They buy more wate1melons
han anyhndy else. When they are u dollar
apiece they buy taem.''
On the subject of vegetables he suid eener.
'ly t'H1t tho market il heinz: supplied with aA
Tie stapl. Vegetables by the home market-gar-.
'ca:. anu rrccs are Just abnut the usual ria i!i
light through. Tile tomato, nuwevcr. Is stll!
INNING from ahroad Southern Illinois aenulnS.
Il lots which snd NJ 20 cr,ls 81 for the oae-
htrt hushct bug. The hume supply. hp~eFeE'
! rlpeniug. and will soou 1nonopolizc the mar
c1.