The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-22
BERRIES AND CHERRIES.
THE EASTERN CROP THIS TEAR rs
VERY SCANT INDEED.
Bad for Preserve Makers-TOo Much for
the Germans-Effect of Gypsy Song
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From the Netedrk Journal.

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From the Netedrk Journal.
Although there has not been any
chance of a heavy crop of cherries at
any time this season there was as late
as a week ago a fair prospect of a lib
eral supply of a very good quality OF
this fruit, but the humidity of last
week and the frequent showers de-
stroyed the chance. There will be
this week a good many cherries in the
market, and they will probably be
sold at low prices, for they will nearly
all be of poor quality. This statement
applies to sweet cherries.
There will be an abundance of sour
cherries, and they will be cheap. This
week, in fact, will probably be the
cheapest week of the year for them.
There is a great crop of all varieties
of sour cherries. All of the crop can
moi be marketed, even at the cost of
picking and transporting 1t to market.
The strawberry eason will close
fully two weeks earlier than last year,
and from now to the end of the season
really good Strawberries will sell for
about 10 cents a quart wholesale.
The large, well-cultivated berries will
sell as high as 30 cents a quart, while
common berries will probably not be
sold again this season for less than 9
cents a quart. The strawberry season
will end with the month of June.
There have been a few cups of rasp-
berries here from Maryland, and this
week there will be a good supply OF
this fruit. Maryland, Delaware and
South Jersey will furnish the supply.
Most of the berries received this week
will be of the variety known
as the Brandywine. There will
be a very large crop this season
grown in New Jersey. This fruit
has been largely planted in this
State during the last five years The
canes this season are strong and full
of growing fruit, and although the
berries that will come here this week
may sell for fairly remunerative prices,
the great bulk of the crop must be
sold at about the cost of picking and
freighting. Many thousands of quarts
of raspberries in fine condition and of
excellent quality will be sold for as
low as six cents per quart.
So far this season has been one of
disaster to the fruit and vegetable
growers of New Jersey, Delaware and
MARYLAND. The mental condition of
the farmers of Monmouth and Middle
sex counties is now anything but
happy. They fully realize the
meaning of a restricted nome
market and overproduction.
Their asparagus beds have scarcely
returned the cost of fertiiizing them
this season, and their strawberry crop
has put them in debt. Their cherry
crop has been destroyed by rains. and
the same rains have produced a great
raspberry crop that cannot be mar
keted at a profit.
The blackcap, Oh black raspberry
crop, will be a large one this season
and there will be a good many OF the
berries here this week from Maryland
and from Vineland. They are largely
grown in the latter neighborhood.
There was a novelty on exhibition at
the Hotel Brunswick, New York, Sat
urday. 1t was a bunch of asparagus,
the spears of which were ~ inches
long. The bunch was 10 inches in
diameter, and the so spears in
the bunch weighed % pounds.
1t was sent by a Philadelphia
dealer to Messrs. Kelly Il Powell, of
that city, to convince them of the in
correctness of the statement made by
one of that firm that Pennsylvania did
not know how to grow asparagus. 1t
was unquestionably by far the largest
fifty-spear bunch ever exhibited in
New York.