The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-12
SCARCELY OF FRUITS.
THE CAUSES WHICH PRODUCE IT
Source. Of sspSly eth. nA,.llps Esl. nnE.t.
rhs psnADd Tor the small TruIn GrOWaia
this Section for sAlpnsat Abroad.
PisAtI Of Peaches lud Apples.

Artporter visited the Second ward market
late In the morning ytItsilSy, and inspected
the remnants Of the stock. A little kuot Of
intelligent growers aud handlers o. fruit and
green groceries was seen gathered around q
fresh arrival Of muskmslOps, or rather nut.
msgs, and talking over the prospects for the
opening fruit season. Tie reporter enrolled
himself as member OF the caucus, and ask.
ed, "Is this the first lot Of nutmegS Of the
ssasont'
"Not quite was the rsp'y. "Ths Rrst
came In Monday. We Lave had water.
melons fora week"
"Whsso do they come fromgt
The wAteTmel0ns from Florida aud GeoI.
giA principally. They ar, brought here from
Baltimore, RSHre the muSkmelonH. The la.
ter are grown In Tennessee. That's the finest
soii ana climate In the world for them. BY
the way, home grown t0mAt les were In the
market for the fist time Is morning. They
will soon BE- plenty, and freeze out the BAlti-
more ones. They r,tAlled at IS buShel Is.
day, and were much hner than those from a
distance. Il will b. week or so, though,
before the home gardeps eau be relied on 10
supply the demand. tomatoes arc growing
more popular every year. A few years ago
the man who had Slipped them here from
Baltimore and offered them, half green, for
25 cents quart box, would have been laugh,
ed at or mObbed, iust according to the humor
the people happened 70 be in. This year 0
hundred bushels were sold al that rate. Yet
later i1 the season people will kick at 50
cents buBhel for much nicer fruit.n
"Ssy, look here" put In another man
"you ought 10 know; how do you pronounce
them thlnR2 You call 'Vm 'to.msy toes
John, here, says 'tc.mAk..oes,' and some
folks call 'em 'tc-maw.toes.' Which Il
right?
The reporter confessed he didn't know,
and asked:
"WhSt are raspberries tc.1sy?'
"f'iitSen cent?"
mot cheap enough to put up.n
put upl A mans fool that buys fruit
here 70 put up. The CHEAPEST straWherries
rot this year, they were higher than tht
canned ones In proportion. The same viii
be true Of rasp6errles. The fact Is We cant
Gtt enou b here at any price rs general
thing. These bIAck.cspS are from Barnts
Vile. Out there they ship hundreds Of buih
els every dty-not week, dEy-to Chicago
All their strawberries went there this year
Those red berries are from down the river
As soon as the new railroad Is done their
| ~ bStN HzAh hGAN lbA bAJ
Ing up such thin. s for the large cities. III,
Sos on for vegetables Is a61ut 4 weet
earlier about Parke0burg and Marietta than
hefe. Those peaches you see there are from
that sectioI. Later we get the Tuscarawal
peach. That's the peach orchard Of thil
neck OF the woods. There isn't city 10 thu
United States that has such a show for peach
es as Wheeling. BUTT won't be long tIll som,
larger city will come in and mon0poliEs it
This year peaches will bepleniy. 30 will
spples. These cooking apples are hom'
grown. The better eating apples are brought
from the Est. In week or 30 now, though
We viii have all We want right here. They
will be cheap enough by August, but peach
es never get cheap, no odds how plenty they
are. There's lois OF money 10 them for i
person who wRutI TO go up the Tus:arawal
road and buy them on speculation. Peaches
are % cents a quart box. They are mic,
ones, too, Apples run about s. barre
yet"
Somebody then Introduced another sub
iect, add the reporter sauntsred on, stmplinJ
the fruits as he went,