Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
THE MARKET BASKET.
Opportunities for Securing Fresh Vegetables
Never Better ut This Time of Year
Christmas Turkey Promises TO
h n,.ov,fowe,I Hi0I,

Never Better ut This Time OF Hear-
Christmas Turkey Promises to
be Internationally High.
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATcH,l
FRIDAY. December 20. 1889.
1t is very rare that fresh vegetables are to
be found on the stalls in as good shape at
this time of the year as they are this season.
An old-time dealer in this line said to-day:
81 can remember no season like this. We
are able to furnish fresh tomatoes. cauli-
flower and string beans, cucumbers, and, in fact,
about everything wanted for sumptuous
Christmas dinner almost as well as we could
when the season for these things was at its
height. OF course it requires more money to
secure the stuff now, but we have it, and to the
class with whom money is no consideration the
opportunities tor securing variety for Christ
mas dinner have not been so good for many
years as now"
Choice poultry tends upward as the holidays
approach. Turkeys are fully &c per pound
higher than they were week ago, and dealers
look for still higher prices next week. The
Christmas turkey that is not already engaged
may go to 30c per pound. Last New Years 35c
per pound was paid in tho Diamond Markets for
choice turkeys.
The condition of weather the past few weeks
has prevented shipments of poultry from the
West. and it is now too late for the large ship
pers to food the markets before Christmas,
whatever the weather may be.
Florists report trade at Its best. 1t is i'm
possible to FIX prices in this line, everything
depends on weather for the next few days. At
present weather is favorable for the develop
ment of buds, but it is impossible to tell what a
day may bring forth, and while we quote prices
the same as last week these will be poor cri-
terion in case of sharp frosty weather between
now and Christmas: Last Onrlstmas supplies
roses went up to 81 so apiece, which was the
price paid by our florists here to New York
florists.
The demand for holiday mistletoe, bouquet
than it is to-day. Maryland and Virginia are
the chief sources of supply for our holly and
mistletoe. Bouquet green comes from Wis
consin and Michigan, and has of late years be-
come prominent industry of the half-breeds.
Our Christmas trees are grown in large quanti-
ties in the nurseries adjoining the Schenley
much neater and command better prices than
those gathered from the woods. The range Of
prices for Christmas trees is from SOC up to S2
Following are the retail prices OF market
dealers:
The best cuts of renderloiD steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloln, best cuts, from 10 to 18c;
standing rib roast from 15 to Zoe; chuck
roast 10 to 12c; best rouEd steaks, l5c; boiling
beef, 5 to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to SOC per pair;
beef kidneys. lOc apiece; beef liver: &c pound;
calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to 10c
per pound Veal for stewing commands 10c;
roast, I21< to l5c; cuSlets 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l211c; fore quarter, &c; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets &c per pound.
Potatoes. l5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes, 25c per half peck; cabbage to l0c;
a quart; celery, sc bunch; bananas.
15to 20c dozen: carrots, &c bunch; lemons, %
to 35c per dozen; oranges, % TO 40c; lettuce,
&c per bunch, 8 for 25c; beets, for 10c;
string beans, 35c a quarter peck; onions 20
to 35c half peck: Spanish onions. to
1Oc each; pie pumpkins, 10 to S5c. according
to size; Malaga grapes, 20 to 35c per pound;
turnips, zoe per half peck; cranberries, 15c a
quart; cucumbers l5 to 35c apiece; mushrooms,
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter, $50. Fancy pound rolls, 40c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 4Oc.
The range for dressed chickens is SOC to 81
per pair. Turkeys, 20 TO 25c per pound. Prairie
chickens, 81 90 pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 20 per
pair; rabbits 30c pair; pheasants, 81 25 pair;
pigeons, SOC pair; geese, 75c to 81 rs apiece.
Following are the articles in this line on
the STALLS with prices: Lake salmon, l213c; Cali
fornia salmon, 40c per pound; white fish,
l216c; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap
pers, Is to 20c per pound; Spanish mackerel, 3Oc
to 35c a pound; sea salmon, 4Oc pound;
rock bass, SOC; black bass, 2Oc lake trout, I21lc;
Holsters 25c; green sea turtle. 28c; mackerel,
20c small, 40c large. Oysters: N. Y. counts,
81 20 per gallon; clans 81 Is per gallons; scol-
lops. soc quart; frogs, s. 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, CSC
per dozen.
La France roses, So 90 per dozen; Bride roses,
81 so per dozen: Perles, 81 50per dozen; De Watt
VILE roses, 81 so per dozen; Papa Gontier roses,
81 25 per dozen: Niphetos, 81 so per dozen; Ben
netts, 81 so per dozen; American Beauty, SO
per dozen; Mermets, 80 so per dozen; carna-
tlons, Soc dozen; Maiden Hair fern, SOC per
dozen fronds; lily of the valley 81 per dozen;
chrysanthemums. 81 to So per dozen; Violets,
81 90 to 81 dozen; hyacinths, 81 dozen.