The evening world., 1889-05-31

TIE jersey ana New York Crops Also ARrtV
ing and the Price VIII tBeebiac Very
Cheap-RaspberTies, TSS, VIII Soon he
In AbundaBce-The Cherry Crop said 70
BE Almost n Total Failure.
Let every boarder rejoice. Let him sing
pnans Of joyl Sound the loud timbrel. foot
the horn, twang the harp Of rejoicing, for
the hour Of his discomfort is passing, passing.
There will be more Strawberries undo the
sugar island in his sea Of cream at to-mor-
rows eventide meal. and the shortcake will
blush at its own honesty.
Strawberries?
More than o million quarts Of the luscious
fruit will be put where they will do the most
good in this town during the next twenty
four hours.
And they will be cheap enough for almost
anybody, for the receipts from the straw berry
country will be more than twice as much to-
morrow morning as they have been any other
day this season.
A steamship is now on its way from Norfolk.
and all Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the
Carolinas are doing their best to satisfy the
appetite Of this city for shortcake. strawberry
buildings. ice-creams and other connections
having the juicy red berry for their basic in
gredient.
ought TO be n plenty OF the fruit at reasona.
Bile prices and reasonable baskets reasonably
we'll filled. for the New jersey crop is In good
report from Monmouth. Middlesex and other
counties, and they will join with the Hudson
River counties of this State in feeding New
York with strawberries and keeping her full
for q fortnight.
The marketmen say that there will be 10
cent berries tomorrow, and they will be less
than that afterwards for q few days. always
excepting. the fine. aristocratic strawberries
blessed with a new name and good ndver-
Using.
come one of the most plentiful raspberry
seasons for many years. The Brandywines
and the Cuthberts have done finely In New
Jersey this season. and the yield will be pro-
life; while the blackberry sectiops Rre said
to be in prospect of an unusually large crop.
But cherries. those lusty twisters of the
youthful stomach, are not in excellent
fighting condition. In many parts Of this
State there will be literally no cherries, save
of the comlnoner varieties.
There was a wealth of blossoms at the
opening period. but the cold rains which
have fallen throughout the State at intervals
frost dampened and chilled the energies of
the trees, and the incipient cherries have
fallen in showers, leaving only a few hardy
brothers to ripen on the trees.
In Westcbester County and along the valley
of the Hudson the tornado of two weeks ago
stripped many trees, but in New Jersey the
crop will be a good one.
Those who keep cases" on the cherry
crop say that there will be a two.thirds crop
in the sections supplying this market. which
will be better than last years supply, and the
growers will bunch their hits.
The Virginia. Delaware and Maryland fruit
begun to arrive yesterday, and the Jersey
} cherries arc ripening fully ten days earlier
than usual, so that Jersey and Pennsylvania
will compete with their Southern sisters fol-
> a week or ten days. and New York will lool
} on iudicially aud eat the oyster. while the
contestants get the shells; for though compe
tition is the life of trade, II is death to high
l prices, and cherries will he cheap for a briel
season and then-from about June 20-thert
will be no cherries at all.
All that is needed to bring about this state
of plenty is a few warm. sunny days, and ne
more cold rains and chilly nights.