Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-05
THE MARKET BASKET.
Good Vegetables and Choice Meats for
the Sunday Dinner-IittIe Change
in Prices-Elorists Un-
llv

in Prices-Florists Un.
usually Busy.
There are few new developments in the line
of the kitchen market trade since our report
last Saturday. At the fruit and vegetable
stalls there was some improvement reported
| over last week with no material change In
prices. The choicest vegetables are offered at
more reasonable rates than is customary at this
time of the year. Creamery butter and eggs
are in jobbing way, lower than they were
last Saturday, but not sufficiently lower to
make an impression on retail markets
Florists report very lively Easter trade
There has never been finer display IN TINS
line and demand was never better. One florist
reports an order from Kentucky for Easter
decorations.
The churches in this vicinity are now the
exception which do not get up some extra
floral doings on the anniversary of the Resur-
rection. About the busiest people in trade
lines to-day are the florists.
Following are the latest quotations of market
basket materials as furnished by leading re-
tailerS:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc. with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from Is to 1Sc;
standing rib roast, from Is to 20c; chuck roast.
10 to l2c; best round steaks, l215 to 5c; boiling
beef to SC; sweet breads 20 to 50c per pair; peel
kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, &c pound; cali
livers 25 to 35c apiece; corned beef from Toto 2c
per pound Veal for stewing commands l0c:
roast, l213 to 15c; cuslets zoe per pound; spring
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l215c; fore quarter, &c; loin OF
mutton, l5c; giblets, SC per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Potatoes. 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes Csc per half peck; cabbage, 10 to 25c; new
Bermuda potatoes. 35c per quarter peck; choice
Florida tomatoes. 4Oc quart: celery, 10 to l5c a
bunch; bananas. Is to 2Oc dozen: carrots, &c
bunch; lemons, IS to 35c per dozen; oranges. %
to 40c; lettuce, to l0c per bunch: beets, new,
lOc, old 5c onions, 40c half peck: green onions,
sc bunch:Bermuda onions, 25c quart;rhubarb,
10c bunch, 3 for 2oc; turnips 20c per half peck;
cranberries 2Oc quart; cucumbers, 10 to 20c
apiece: mushrooms 81 pound; radishes. 5c;
asparagus, zoe bunch; new peas. Soc quarter
peck; strawberries. 35@50c quart.
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter. Doc. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is lSc.
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 %
per pair. Spring chickens, 81 So per gaiE;;
Turkeys, Csc 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, 121ac; Cali
fornia salmon, 4Oc per pound; white fish,
l215c; herring, 4 pounds for 2oc; red snap
pers, Is TO zoe per pound; Spanish mackerel, SOC
to 35c pound; sea salmon, 40c a pound;
blue fish, 25 to 30c; perch, l0c; halibut, 25c;
rock bass, 3Oc; black bass. 2Oc; lake trout, l2ac;
Holsters, 25c: green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackerel,
2Oc small, 40c large. Oysters: N. Y. counts,
81 70 per gallon; clans, 81 25 per gallon; scol-
lops, SOC quart; frogs, 81 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, IS per dozen; devil crabs Soc
per dozen.
Flowers.
Jacks, So 90 per dozen; La France. 81 90 per
dozen; Mermets, 81 so per dozen; Brides, 81 so
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen
tulips. Soc per dozen; Bennetts. 81 so per dozen;
Beauties, SOC apiece; Magma Charta, 81 90 apiece;
Harrison lilies, 25c apiece; violets, 81 so a hun
dred; lily of the valley. 75c per dozen; Dutch
hyacinths 81 rs to 81 90 per dozen; heliotrope,
Soc per dozen.