Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-21

THE MARKET BASKET.
Week Of Grent Activity In Garden Prod.
ucts-Berries in nAbundance-Meious
Received, but They're Expen-

aive-Other Fruits.
The week past has been one OF great activity
in the line of garden products. Home grown
strawberries have been at their best and de-
mand has been good for all choice stock. There
were never better Strawberries offered In this
market than are now to be found on the stalls.
By another week home grown berries will be on
the wane. Raspberries, both black and red
begin to come in freely from Baltimore. Black.
berries of fine quality and delicious flavor are
also coming In for few days past from the
same source, California apricots and peaches
are in fair supply and by another week will be
plenty. At present prices the average consumer
must desist from these delicacies. Water melons
and cantaloups are also among the expensive
luxuries. but are also shade lower than they
were week ago. All vegetables are drifting
toward lower level Tomatoes of excellent
quality are little more than half what they
were week ago. New potatoes hold up well
July 4
The retail markets for butter. eggs and poul-
try are practically as Shey were a week ago.
Creamery butter and strictly fresh eggs are a
shade higher in wholesale way, but not enough
to make any market impression on the retail
markets
Florists report an active weeks trade with
prices unchanged.
In the line of fish and meats the situation is
as 1t was last Saturday. Following are the
latest retail quotations in the line Of market
basket materials:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 10 to lSc;
standing rib roast, from 10 to zoe; chuck roast
10 to 12c; best round steaks, 121< to l5c; boiling
beef, to SCI sweet breads 70 to 50c per pair: beef
ivers, rs to 35c apiece; corned beef from lotto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewtng commands l0c;
roast, 121a to 15c; curlets 2Oc per pound; spring
&c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality brings l211c; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton; l6c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden Stuff:
Cabbage, zoe; new potatoes Csc per half
peck; choice Florida tomatoes, 20c quart box;
bananas, 15 to zoe dozen; carrots SC bunch;
lemons, ~ to 30c per dozen; oranges, IS
to Soc; caulIhower, homegrown, 10 to 25c a
head; lettuce, &c per bunch; beets. &C per bunch,
SOC per dozen; green onions, punches for &c;
cucumbers, to l0c apiece: asparagus, sc a
bunch; new peas, 30c a half peck; new BEANS
Csc half peck; strawberries. 10 to 15c quart,
home grown; black raspberries, l5c quart, red,
zoe: blackberries, l5c quart; gooseberries, zoe
a quart; pineapples 10 to 15c apiece; eggplant,
10 10 15c apiece; squash, 5 to l5c apiece; water
melons, 20 to Soc apiece; cantaloupes, Is to 4Oc
apiece; California apricots and peaches, Csc a
quart box.
Choice creamery butter zoe. Good country
butter. IL to lac. Fancy pound rolls, Is to zoe.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 20c.
The range for dressed chickens is ST to 81 Is
per pair.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 121zc,
California salmon, 35c per pound; white fish,
121fc; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to 30c pound; blue fish, 15c; halibut
zoe: rock bass, Csc; black bass, l5c; lake trout,
l21kc; Holsters, zoe: green sea turtle 20 to 25c
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 rs per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon; frog legs, 75c pound; soft
shell crabs, 81 to 81 25 per dozen; frogs, 81 .
dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
Jacks, 81 25 per dozen; La France. 81 25 per
dozen; Mermets. 81 25 per dozen; Brides, 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white, 75c per dozen;
Bennetts, 81 90 per dozen; Beauties Csc apiece;
Harrison lilies, 25c apiece; pansles. 10c per
dozen; heliotrope, Soc per dozen; carnations, SOC
per dozen; peonies, 81 per dozen; Madame
Planter, 75c per dozen; Gabrielle Luizet. 2Oc
apiece.