Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-25
ABOUT PEACHES.
An Abundant Supply For This Week
 Large Sales Not Anticipated The Prices. wholesale And Re.

Am Abundant Supply For This Week
 Large Sales Not Anticipated
 The Prices. wholesale And Re.
 tail.
 Encouraging reports come from New York regarding the prospect of an abundant sup ply of peaches, not only for this week, but probably to the end of the season. A tele- graph despatch says: 'sThat there will be
 more peaches here this week than during any
 preyious week of the season there is little
 doubt. and it is most probable that this will
 be the week of the greatest abundance dur
 ing the season. But as the varieties which
 are now ripening and will be here this week
 are the very choicest of the season it is ex-
 pected that good prices will be obtained all
 the week. A fair quality of Oldmixons and
 Stumps will probably be wholesaled as
 low as $1 per basket and the
 best of the Stumps will scarcely com
 mand over $2 per basket. Crawford's Late
 will sell for about the same as the Stumps
 The Reeves, when large and fine, may sell as
 high as $2. 50 per basket for the very choice,
 and common ones may be sold as low as $1 per basket It will be two weeks before any
 peaches suitable for preserving will reach
 here from Delaware, and the supply of com
 mon peaches from New Jersey will be very
 great but there would be much more of 1t
 here had not the health officers been actively
 at work in their line of duty during the
 past two or three weeks By their de-
 c1ded work in condemning and destroying
 quantities of green and prematurely ripened
 fruit they have deterred those New Jersey growers who in years past have been in the
 habit of flooding the market with worthless peaches from sending it to the market. But the early variety of peaches are now ripe in moi attractive to the eye, they are very pleasant to the taste."
 The wholesale dealers in this city were yesterday displaying the finest of this lus- cious fruit thus far exhibited this season and the prices were reasonable. They were not anticipating as good prices this season as on many former ones. This is not owing so much to the abundance of the crop as to the dull times, which prevent many people from purchasing what is looked upon somewhat | in the light of luxury. It is not likely either that there will be many preserved 1 this year and for the same reason. The prices at wholesale in New Haven yesterday were about as follows: Crawfords $1.50 to S175 Oldmixons $1.25 to $1.5O, Mountain | Rose $1 to $1.5O. Good fair fruit was re- tailing yesterday at from eight to ten cents | a quart, which is probably as cheap as they l can be bought this week.
 Perhaps the most desirable peach that can be obtained this week is the Reeves Favorite, l large yellow peach, which differs from the
 Crawfords only in shape and flavor. The Crawfords are distinguished by having de- I cided point on the end, and generally one side is little larger than the other. The Reeves is more perfect peach, being almost l round, with tendency to hatten at the top. Most of the lower Maryland and lower Delaware Reeves have already come to the | market. But some of the very best of this variety of fruit is grown in Kent county, Del, and in Kent and Queen Anne counties, Md, and they will arrive here this week. In conversation with wholesale dealer yesterday, he remarked that it was expected that they would lose from three to four bushels from each carload while in transit. | The loss is not all froa decay either, said he, flor you see the railroad boys think it no harm to help themselves to a peach or two occasionally, and this followed up to the end of the route makes quite a shrink l