Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-27
Markets and weather.

bringing us accounts OF the first really
severe storm of the season in the East
ern States. 1t is not absolutely the first
wintry weather Of the season in that por-
ton of the Union. Early in the current
month we we're informed of heavy
snow storm all along the valleys of the
Mississippi, but at that time the mer-
curry went down to matter of only Is to
20 degrees below the freezing point of
water. 1t did not fall to the zero point
anywhere - not by several degrees.
Such dispensation from the weather
clerk is accepted in good part by the
people OF the old States. They regard it
as rather mild weather. But the blizzard
now prevailing is no trife in the way of
severity. Shipwrecks, perishing cattle,
frozen people and widespread, universal
suffering mark the path OF the storm
which covers the entire area of the At
lantic States.
AS contrast to all that, we propose
to give little sketch of the green grocer
stalls in the Los Angeles market. This is
Thanksgiving week and q picture of
what may be had for the dinner on at
feast will best Indicate the character of
our weather. The dainties catalogued
below all grow at this moment in the
open fields all about here. They are
gathered daily fresh, crisp and sound,
and placed upon the stalls in the
markets:
There are tomatoes, yellow and red,
in quantity and perfectly ripe.
There is crisp lettuce, and
there is white succulent celery.
There are fine eggplant and big sweet
potatoes all as sound as bell. There
are savory caulifowers as large as tea
kettle and Brussells sprouts as tender
as summer squash. There are
green peas, string beans and Lima
beans in abundance. These vegetables all
grow in our fields. They are gathered by
the wagon load, and they are sold SO
reasonably that few families are too poor
to set from three to five of the choicest OF
them on the table for the THANKSGIVING
dinner.
Without by any means exhausting the
category OF vegetables, pass on to the
line OF fruits, of which all the foregoing
may be repeated. The fruit stalls in the
markets are loaded down with BELLE
flower, rambeau, greening and russell
apples. Pears of several varieties, in
cluding, OF course, the winter nellis,
flank these. With them are ranged
guava berries, deliciously ripe, and the
delicate and piquant Japanese per-
simmon. There are, of course, all
varieties of citrus fruits, the orange,
lemon and lime. Oranges are just begin
ming to appear in the market. They can
not be said to be ripe yet, but they are
there. Then, strangest of all, there
are strawberries and raspberries, which
like all the foregoing list. are gathered
daily from the open field, from the vines
and trees and brought into the market.
These are all in the highest perfection at
this season. They are sound. ripe, per-
feet in favor as they are in June,
July or August. One passes over new
potatoes, fine cabbages and some of the
fruits in the stalls. But we must not for
get the grapes. They are found in great
boxes, just picked from the vines in ex-
cellent condition.
To give the range of temperature as be-
ing As or so degrees during the latter
part OF the night, and 60 to 20 during the
day conveys good idea of the perfection
OF our weather at this season, but
such lists as those above give the reader,
a much better impression of how mild
this section is from a meteorological
point of view.