Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-14
FRUITS AND FLOWERS
And Other Dniniies Now Offered in the
Market-FIne Home Grown Sfrnw-
berries-New Vegetables Are
Abundant and Cheaper.


berries-New Vegetables Are
Abundant and Cheaper.
Homegrown strawberries are now at their
best, and will be for a week to come. A leading
retailer of fruits and vegetables who has been
conversant with the trade for a generation said
to-day: II never saw homegrown Strawberries
as fine as we are having this season. The crop
has been larger in other seasons, but never OF as
fine quality. Growers have discovered that fine
fruit brings better returns than large quantities
of inferior fruit. AS a result the quailty Oh
berries raised in this section has been improv-
ing every year, until we have nearly reacneo
perfection in this line. There are plenty OF peo-
pie here ready to pay big for a good article, and
am confident that we will have better berries
to offer for the next few days than ever before,
and that supply will not be up TO demand as re-
CARDS choice fruit"
Home grown cauliflower and peas are on the
Diamond market stalls for the first time this
gooseberries and cherries are also to the front.
Dealers IN tropical fruits report large receipts
of California apricots, peaches and plums OF
delicious quality. The week has been one OF
abundance in all seasonable fruits and Vegeta-
bles, and consumers have responded. The
first raspberres of the season are on the stalls
this week. New potatoes are in good supply
and old are thing Of the past. In the line OF
ocean products trade has now reached its quiet
season. Tourists report active demand for
their goods and report that choice varieties
ing are latest retail quotations of market bas-
ket filling:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from 10 to lse;
standing rib roast, from Is to Zoe; chuck roast
10 to 12c; best round steaks, l23 to I5c; boiling
beef to Sc sweet breads 70 to 5Oc per pair; beef
kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
livers, Is to Csc apiece; corned beef from 10tol2e
per pound Veal for stewing commands 10c;
roast, 1215 to 15c; cuslets, Nc per pound; spring
l5c. A leg Of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l211c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, 10 to Csc; new potatoes. 25c per half
peck; choice Florida tomatoes 30 TO 40c quart;
bananas, Is to 20c dozen; carrots, sc bunch;
lemons, 20 to SOC per dozen; oranges, S5
TO Soc; caulIfower, homegrown, 10 to 25c
sa head lettuce &c per Duneh 6eef &C. for
bers, to 10c apiece; asparagus, SC bunch;
new peas. Soc half peck; new beans.
Csc half peck; strawberries. 15 to 25c quart,
home grown; raspberries zoe quart: pineap-
Piles, 10 to l5c apiece; eggplant 10 to 15c apiece;
squash, 5 to l5c apiece.
Cholce creamery butter, zoe. Good country
butter. IL to 14c. Fancy pound rolls, Is to Zoe.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is Zoe.
The range for dressed chickens Is 81 to 81 25
per pair
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to PIC;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
l215c; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to 30c pound; blue fish, 15c; halibut
zoe; rock bass, Csc; black bass, 15c; lake trout,
12Hc; HOLSTERS, Zoe: green sea turtle, 20 to 25c.
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 70 per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon; frog legs, 75c pound; soft
she'll crabs, 81 to 81 70 per dozen; frogs, 81 a
dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
Jacks, 81 Is per dozen; La France, 81 % per
dozen; Mermets, 81 25 per dozen; Brides. 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white. 75c per dozen;
Bennetts, 81 90 per dozen; Beauties, 25c apiece;
Harrison lilies, Csc apiece; pansIes. l0c per
dozen; heliotrope SOC per dozen; carnations, 30c
per dozen; peonIes, 81 per dozen; Madame
Planter, 75c per dozen; Gabrielle Luizet, Zoe