Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
THE MARKET BASKET.
Fruits and Vegetables at Their Best-Prices
Tending Lower.

Garden stuff is now at its best, and with
the improvement in quality comes decline
in prices. The materials for Fourth of July
and Sunday dinner are better in quality and
ought to be lower in price than they have
been any time this season. Strawberries are
still to be hat, but price:is decidedly higher
than it was a week ago. Raspberries now
have the lead in small fruit lines. Cherries
are plenty and shade lower than they were
q week ago.
Cantaloupes of large size and excellent
quality are to be had at the Diamond market
stalls, but prices are rather steep for the
average citizen. Southern potatoes are
coming in very freely, but quality of re-
ceipts is low. The first home raised potatoes
of the season were on sale the past few days.
Strictly fresh eggs have been scarce all the
week and prices are shade higher than last
Saturday. Choice creamery butter is also
firm, but retail prices stand as a week ago.
At the fish stalls trade is reported light
which is the rule at this season. Soft shell
crabs and frogs are in short supply and good
demand. Florists report good trade for
the week. Roses are growing scarce and
prices tend upward
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, 25c per
b.: sirloin, 1S@90c; standing rib roast. 1S@aOc;
lamb, 25c leg of mutton, 12}c for hind quarter and
sc for fore quarter: oin of mutton 15c lamb chops
aens m snG p Pork Eee Tsa1 e
steaks. 10c, an advance of &C per ID. rates which
only article in the flesh line which fails to respond
TO the upward movement of prices.
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT-Cabbage, 53lOc: pota-
toes 2Gc per halt peck: Bermuda onions l5c quart;
yellow beans 20c; wax beans. 25c q quarter peck:
bananas, Dd25c dozen: carrots, SC a bunch: toma-
toes, lOc a quart; homegrown peas, zoe per half
peck: lemons, 30d40c per dozen oranges 25GiOc let
tuce. cper bunch; beets, l0c bunch; asparagus
sc bunch, 6 for 25c: radishes, SC bunch: cucum-
bers. SC apiece; Strawberries 12Gl5c a quart:
rnubarb punches for 10c: cherries, SdlOc quart:
green gooseberries and currants. 10c a quart: egg
plants, l5Gnc; new homegrown celery, l0c a
bunch, 3 for Csc; raspberries, u@12c box: water
melons, 30d50c apiece: cantaoupes, 10000 apiece;
homegrown caulifower, l09l5c apiece; blackber-
ries, I3dl5c box.
BUTTER AND EGGs--Good creamery, 2Oc per ID;
fancy brands, &c. choice country rolls, 15c; good
cooking butter, l2c: fresh eggs, &c per dozen.
PoULTRI-Dressed chickens, Il to 13c per ib;
ducks, l3c to 15c per ID: turkeys. 16c.
F1SH-FOllowing are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon. 10 to 15c: CAL
ifornia salmon, 35 to 40c per pound white fish, l2
TO l5c; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackere
40c per pound; buefsh, 1Jc; halibut 2Oc rock bass
25c; lake trout, l2c Holsters, 2c; green sea turtle
% 10 25c. Oysters: New York counts 81 rs per GAL
Ion; smelts 20c pound; shad, q o. to 81 3 each:
scallops, 20c pound. Mackinaw trout, l25ac per
pound soft shell crabs, 81 90 10 81 Is DOZEN frogs
s. 90 dozen.
FLowERs-La France, 81 Is per dozen; Mermets
81 25 per dozen; Brides Il 25 per dozen; yellow and
white roses, 75c per dozen: Bennetts, 81 90 per
dozen; carnations, Sc per dozen; Duchess of Al
hany, 81 90 per dozen: heliotrope soc per dozen:
Harrisii, sc each: hostes, 81 90 a dozen; Jacks
75c to 81 90 doZen pansies, 25c; water lilies sc
dozen; moss roses, 75c dozen.