Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-03
FOR SUNDAYS DINNER.
Fruits nnd Vegetables Selling Wen-QuaI-
ity Of Strawberries Improving
Good Demand for Flowers

| Fruits nnd Vegetables Selling Wen-Qual.
ity of Strawberries Improving
Good Demand for Flowers
Staples Unchanged.
There is little new to report in the depart.
ment with which housewives are most con-
cerned. At the fruit and vegetable stalls a
good weeks trade is reported, with very little
variation from last Saturdays prices. The
| quality of seasonable fruits and vegetables,
| however, shows Improvement. Strawberries
are in much better shape than they have been
for week or two past. Choice tropical fruits
are higher in jobbing way, but at retail are
! unchanged
In the line of lake and ocean products, there
has been scarcity of white fish and salmon from
| Western waters the past few days. Supply has
| not been up to demand. From the East there
| has been fair supply of shad, cod and had
| dock, but none too many for the wants of
trade. The oyster season over, SO far as sup
plies from the Chesapeake is concerned. Mary
land and Virginia laws forbid the gathering of
oysters after April. Only New York counts
will be found on the fish stalls the rest of the
season.
Florists report trade lively with no change in
prices. The quality of their goods keeps
steadily improving under the influence of sun
shine and timely showers. Society events the
past week are making florists happy, as well as
chosen the early days of May for the great
event of life. Following are latest retail prices
of market basket filling:
staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from Is to lSc;
standing rib roast, from l5 to 20c: chuck roast
10 to l2c; best round steaks 121S I5c; boiling
beef Sc; sweet breads 20 to soc per pair: beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, sc pound; calf
llvers % to 35c apiece; corned beef from ito l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands 1Oc;
roast l215 to l5c; cuslets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs fore quarter, 10 to lie; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality brings l211ci fore quarter Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Potatoes. l5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes. S5c per half peck; cabbage, 10 to Csc; new
Bermuda potatoes 25c per quarter peck; choice
Florida tomatoes, SOC quart; celery, 10 to l5c
bunch; bananas l5 to 20c dozen: carrots SC a
bunch; lemons, Is to 35c per dozen; oranges, 25
TO 4Oc; lettuce, to l0c per bunch; beets new,
lOc, old &C; onions, 4Oc half peck: green onions
&c punch;B onions, ,2Oc quart;rhubarb,
&c a bunch, for 25c; turnips zoe per half peck;
cranberrles, 2Oc quart; cucumbers Is to 20c
apiece; mushrooms, 81 pound; radishes. SC
a bunch: asparagus, l5c bunch; new peas. SOC
quarter peck; new beans. SOC quarter peck;
strawberries, OQSOc quart; pineapples, Is to
Csc apiece.
Choice creamery butter, 25c. Good country
butter. 2Oc. Fancy pound rolls, 20 to Csc.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is l4c
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 25
per pair Spring chickens. 81 Is to 81 per pair.
Turkeys, &c per pound Ducks, 81 % to 81 so
per PAIR.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon 10 to l21Sc;
California salmon, 35c per pound; white fish,
R1aci herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack |
erel, % to SOC pound; blue tsh. l5c; halibut,
20c: rock bass, Csc; black bass, l5c; lake trout
l21Sc; HOLSTERS zoe: green sea turtle, 20 to 25c.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 70 per gallon; clans, /
81 % per gallon; frog legs, Toe a pound; soft |
shell crabs 81 so per dozen.
Flowers.
Jacks, So 90 per dozen; La France 81 so per |
dozen; Mermets, 81 Is per dozen; Brides 81 25 |
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen: |
tulips, Soc per dozen; Bennetts, 81 25 per dozen;
Beauties SOC apiece; Brunner, SOC apiece; |
Harrison lilies, 25c apiece; violets, 81 so hun
dred; lily of the valley, 75c per dozen; Dutch |
hyacinths, 81 rs to 81 90 per dozen; heliotrope,
Soc per dozen; mignonette, extra fine 81 so per |
dozen; splrea, soc per dozen.